The Lifted Veil
The Lifted Veil
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Summary
A new edition of George Eliot's two, and only, attempts at the short story. "The Lifted Veil" is a melancholy piece of stream of consciousness. "Brother Jacob" is an allegorical tale about a confectioner who under-estimates his retarded brother's mental capacities.
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The Lifted Veil by George Eliot
Latimer, the narrator of The Lifted Veil, possesses an uncanny ability to see into the minds of others and to divine the future, including the moment of his own death. The gift of being able to read the private thoughts and emotions of his fellow men soon becomes a curse to Latimer, for he is horrified by what he discovers. Afflicted by his burden of knowledge, he is driven to marry the cold-hearted coquette Bertha - the only person whose mind seems closed to him, until it is too late. This volume also includes George Eliot's only other short fictional work; the satirical fable Brother Jacob, in which the mercenary schemes of a devious confectioner are unconsciously thwarted by the childlike innocence of his 'idiot' brother.
Mary Ann Evans (1819-80) began her literary career as a translator and later editor of the Westminster Review. In 1857, she published Scenes of Clerical Life, the first of eight novels she would publish under the name of 'George Eliot', including The Mill on the Floss and MIddlemarch. Sally Shuttleworth is Professor of English at the University of Sheffield. She is the author of George Eliot and Nineteenth-Century Science.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780140435177 |
| ISBN 10 | 0140435174 |
| Title | The Lifted Veil |
| Author | George Eliot |
| Series | Penguin Classics S |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2001-05-31 |
| Number of pages | 160 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |