The Lifted Veil

Author: George Eliot
Publisher: Xist Publishing
ISBN: 1623958318
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 46

Book Description
The Lifted Veil by George Eliot is a gothic novella in the vein of other Victorian horror stories like Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and Bram Stoker's Dracula. In The Lifted Veil, the unreliable narrator, Latimer, believes that he is cursed with an otherworldly ability to see into the future and the thoughts of other people. This leads to tragedy as his obsession with his brother's fiancee. This Xist Classics edition has been professionally formatted for e-readers with a linked table of contents. This eBook also contains a bonus book club leadership guide and discussion questions. We hope you’ll share this book with your friends, neighbors and colleagues and can’t wait to hear what you have to say about it. Xist Publishing is a digital-first publisher. Xist Publishing creates books for the touchscreen generation and is dedicated to helping everyone develop a lifetime love of reading, no matter what form it takes

Brother Jacob

Author: George Eliot
Publisher: Modernista
ISBN: 9181081472
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 57

Book Description
»Brother Jacob« is a short story by George Eliot, originally published in in 1864. GEORGE ELIOT , pseudonym for MARY ANN EVANS [1819-1880], was an English novelist. Several of her works are considered among the most important in British literature within a realistic novel tradition. They often unfold in the English countryside and are characterized by a deeply empathetic psychological portrayal that was ahead of its time.

The Lifted Veil Illustrated

Author: George Eliot
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 74

Book Description
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. The novella is a significant part of the Victorian tradition of horror fiction, which includes such other examples as Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886), and Bram Stoker's Dracula (1897).

Silas Marner

Author: George Eliot
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 630

Book Description

Brother Jacob

Author: George Eliot
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 180

Book Description

The Lifted Veil

Author: George Eliot
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780140435177
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 164

Book Description
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.

The Lifted Veil

Author: George Eliot
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 262

Book Description

12 Victorian Ghost Stories

Author: Michael Cox
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 232

Book Description
Victorian writers excelled at the ghost story. Here editor Michael Cox brings together well wrought tales of haunted houses, vengeful spirits, spectral warnings, invisible antagonists, and motiveless malignity from beyond the grave. Traditional in form but inventive and infused with a relish of the supernatural, these classic ghost stories still retain their original power to unsettle and surprise.

Silas Marner

Author: George Eliot
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 568

Book Description

Episodes in the Mathematics of Medieval Islam

Author: J.L. Berggren
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1493937804
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 266

Book Description
This book presents an account of selected topics from key mathematical works of medieval Islam, based on the Arabic texts themselves. Many of these works had a great influence on mathematics in Western Europe. Topics covered in the first edition include arithmetic, algebra, geometry, trigonometry, and numerical approximation; this second edition adds number theory and combinatorics. Additionally, the author has included selections from the western regions of medieval Islam—both North Africa and Spain. The author puts the works into their historical context and includes numerous examples of how mathematics interacted with Islamic society.