The Sad Fortunes Of The Reverend Amos Barton

george eliot

""The Sad Fortunes of the Reverend Amos Barton"" is a novel written by George Eliot, which tells the story of a poor clergyman named Amos Barton and his family who struggle to make ends meet in a rural English community. Despite his best efforts, Amos is unable to gain the respect of his congregation or provide for his family, leading to a series of misfortunes and personal crises. The novel explores themes of social class, religion, and morality, as well as the complexities of human relationships and the challenges of living a meaningful life in difficult circumstances. Through Amos's experiences, Eliot offers a poignant and insightful commentary on the struggles and hardships faced by many people in Victorian England. This book is a classic work of literature that continues to resonate with readers today.But, my dear madam, it is so very large a majority of your fellow-countrymen that are of this insignificant stamp. At least eighty out of a hundred of your adult male fellow-Britons returned in the last census are neither extraordinarily silly, nor extraordinarily wicked, nor extraordinarily wise; their eyes are neither deep and liquid with sentiment, nor sparkling with suppressed witticisms; they have probably had no hairbreadth escapes or thrilling adventures; their brains are certainly not pregnant with genius, and their passions have not manifested themselves at all after the fashion of a volcano.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

Genres classicsfictionvictorian19th centurybritish literatureliteratureliterary fictionenglish literaturenovellaeuropean literature

68 pages, Paperback

First published January 1,1857

Series

Scenes of Clerical Life

This edition

Format: 68 pages, Paperback
Published: June 17, 2004 by Kessinger Publishing
ISBN: 9781419181368
ASIN: 141918136X
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.