基本説明
Ed. by Nancy Henry. Impressions of Theophrastus Such appeared in 1879, Eliot's last completed work.
Full Description
George Eliot (1819-80) is one of the most widely-read of the 19th-century novelists and story-writers. "Impressions of Theophrastus Such" appeared in 1879, Eliot's last completed work. It consists of 18 short essays narrated by a middle-aged bachelor, Theophrastus.
Contents
Introduction; Chronology; Select Bibliography; Note on the text; Acknowledgements; Chapter headings: Looking Inward; Looking Backward; How We Encourage Research; A Man Surprised at his Originality; A Too Deferential Man; Only Temper; A Political Molecule; The Watch-Dog of Knowledge; A Half Breed; Currency; The Wasp Credited with the Honeycomb; 'So Young!'; How We Come to Give Ourselves False Testimonials, and Believe in Them; The Too Ready Writer; Diseases of Small Authorship; Moral Swindlers; Shadows of the Coming Race; The Modern Hep! Hep! Hep!
