Scenes of Clerical Life

george eliot thomas a. noble

A collection of three stories. The Stories take place in and around the fictional town of Milby in the English Midlands. Each of the Scenes concerns a different Anglican clergyman, but is not necessarily centred upon him. Eliot examines, among other things, the effects of religious reform and the tension between the Established and the Dissenting Churches on the clergymen and their congregations, and draws attention to various social issues, such as poverty, alcoholism, and domestic violence.

This book has 387 pages and originally published in 1857.

Genres classicsfictionshort stories19th centuryvictorianliteraturebritish literaturehistorical fictionnovelsliterary fiction

336 pages, Paperback

First published January 1,1857

Series

Scenes of Clerical Life

This edition

Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Published: January 24, 2002 by Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780192837806
ASIN: 019283780X
Language: English

About the author

george eliot

Mary Ann Evans, known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She wrote seven novels: Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), Romola (1862–1863), Felix Holt, the Radical (1866), Middlemarch (1871–1872) and Daniel Deronda (1876). Like Charles Dickens and Thomas Hardy, she emerged from provincial England; most of her works are set there. Her works are known for their realism, psychological insight, sense of place and detailed depiction of the countryside.
Middlemarch was described by the novelist Virginia Woolf as "one of the few English novels written for grown-up people" and by Martin Amis and Julian Barnes as the greatest novel in the English language.