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Mar 10, 2022 · THE LIFTED VEIL. Give me no light, great Heaven, but such as turns To energy of human fellowship; No powers beyond the growing heritage That makes completer manhood.
Mar 9, 2024 · The Lifted Veil is a novella by George Eliot, first published in 1859. Quite unlike the realistic fiction for which Eliot is best known, The Lifted Veil explores themes of extrasensory perception, the essence of physical life, possible life after death, and the power of fate.
May 1, 2000 · "The Lifted Veil" by George Eliot is a short novel written during the late 19th century, a time often characterized as the Victorian era. This thought-provoking work delves into the complexities of human perception, emotional suffering, and the agonies of foreknowledge as experienced by its protagonist, who possesses the uncanny ability to ...
- George Eliot
- David Price
- 1859
- English
- Visions of Bertha and An Unreliable Narrator
- Themes of The Lifted Veil
- Embarrassed Its Original Publisher
- How The Lifted Veil Begins …
Latimer, the book’s unreliable narrator, is a sensitive intellectual who believes that he can see into the future and read the thoughts of others. These clairvoyant powers, in his mind, are a curse. He was struck with them after a critical childhood illness he suffered while at school in Geneva, Switzerland. Much of what he reads into the motivatio...
Latimer mirrors some of the beliefs George Eliot, including the repulsion at how selfish and self-interested human nature can be. On the other hand, he’s somewhat naïve, and considered one of her most unlikable characters. Beautiful, narcissistic Bertha has been compared to Rosamund Vincy of Middlemarch. Though George Eliot’s other works of fiction...
According to the 1985 Penguin Books edition: “Reminiscent of the work of Mary Shelley, The Lifted Veilembarrassed its original publishers by its exploration of pseudosciences and its publication was delayed … A chilling tale of moral alienation and despair, this lesser-known novella testifies to Eliot’s lifelong interest in the supernatural.” It wa...
Chapter One The time of my end approaches. I have lately been subject to attacks of angina pectoris; and in the ordinary course of things, my physician tells me, I may fairly hope that my life will not be protracted many months. Unless, then, I am cursed with an exceptional physical constitution, as I am cursed with an exceptional mental character,...
In this dark novella of Victorian horror, George Eliot explores clairvoyance, fate and the possibility of life after death. One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946.
Feb 28, 2017 · George Eliot. Follow. The Lifted Veil (Penguin Little Black Classics) Mass Market Paperback – International Edition, February 28, 2017. by George Eliot (Author) 3.6 347 ratings. See all formats and editions.
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Sep 26, 2016 · The Lifted Veil is a novella by George Eliot, first published in 1859. Quite unlike the realistic fiction for which Eliot is best known, The Lifted Veil explores themes of extrasensory...
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