Selected Essays, Poems, and Other Writings

A. S. Byatt

earliest edition we have, 1991 Penguin Books, 2001 paperback 544 pages

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The works assembled here introduce George Eliot's incisive views on religion, art, and science, and the nature and purpose of fiction. Essays show her rejecting her earlier religious beliefs, questioning conventional ideas about female virtues and marriage, and setting out theories of idealism and realism that she developed further in her famous novels. Also included are selections from Eliot's translations of works...

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Selected Essays, Poems and Other Writings (Penguin Classics) paperback · 2001 · Penguin Books · 544 pages · 9780140439809
Selected Essays, Poems, and Other Writings (Penguin Classics) edition · 1991 · Penguin Classics · 544 pages · 9780140431483

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