The complete online text of Scenes of Clerical Life by George Eliot.

George Eliot was the pen name used by the English novelist Mary Ann Evans (1819-1880), one of the most important writers of European fiction. Her masterpiece, Middlemarch, is not only a major social document but also one of the greatest novels in the his...

The most learned and respected novelist of the late Victorian period, George Eliot suffered a decline in reputation after her death and into the early twentieth century because the biography stitched together by her widower, John Walter Cross, left out t...

The most learned and respected novelist of the later Victorian period, George Eliot suffered a decline in reputation after her death and into the early twentieth century because the biography stitched together by her widower, John Walter Cross, left out...

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The Boom Economy: Or, Scenes from Clerical Life by Brian Bouldrey Terrace Books/Univ. of Wisconsin Press. 294 pages, $24.95 DENNIS Bacchus, the main character of Brian Bouldrey's new novel, The Boom Economy, wants to become a priest. When a character with such...