{"product_id":"scenes-of-clerical-life-by-george-eliot-preowned-paperback","title":"\"Scenes of Clerical Life\" by George Eliot (Preowned Paperback)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eScenes of Clerical Life\u003c\/em\u003e consists of three short novellas in which the lives of ordinary men and women in a provincial Midlands town are portrayed with tender sympathy and understanding. Eliot brought a new level of literary realism to her tales of Amos Barton, Mr Gilfil, and Janet Dempster in her first published work of fiction.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e'the only true knowledge of our fellow-man is that which enables us to feel with him'\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGeorge Eliot's first published work consisted of three short novellas: 'The Sad Fortunes of the Reverend Amos Barton', 'Mr Gilfil's Love-Story', and 'Janet's Repentance'. Their depiction of the lives of ordinary men and women in a provincial Midlands town initiated a new era of nineteenth-century literary realism. The tales concern rural members of the clergy and the gossip and factions that a small town generates around them. Amos Barton only realizes how much he depends upon his wife's selfless love when she dies prematurely; Mr Gilfil's devotion to a girl who loves another is only fleetingly rewarded; and Janet Dempster suffers years of domestic abuse before the influence of an Evangelical minister turns her life around.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThese stories are remarkable for the tenderness with which Eliot portrays a bygone time of religious belief in a newly secular age, giving literary fiction an alternative language to religion and philosophy for the observation and understanding of human experience.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Something Novel Booksellers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51934067491133,"sku":null,"price":5.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0808\/7476\/6653\/files\/IMG_1605.heic?v=1783485068","url":"https:\/\/somethingnovelbooks.com\/products\/scenes-of-clerical-life-by-george-eliot-preowned-paperback","provider":"Something Novel Booksellers","version":"1.0","type":"link"}