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Lifted Veil (Version 2), The by George Eliot (1819 - 1880)Author: LibriVox
George Eliots 1859 novella, The Lifted Veil, departs radically from the grounded realism of her longer and better known works, such as Middlemarch and Daniel Deronda. Its tone calls to mind the works of middlebrow Sensationists, like Wilkie Collins (The Moonstone), and of some of the better known authors of Victorian era horror writings, such as Bram Stoker (Dracula) and Mary Shelley (Frankenstein).Eliot here explores mystical themes, considering the world of phenomena which are felt but not seen. Yet in doing so she suggests that the apparent clairvoyance of her main character, Latimer, may in fact be, at least in part, psychological expressions of his early life experiences. This view is supported by the fact that most of Latimers vision-based predictions of how people will behave and events unfold do not, in the end, turn out as he had foretold.Much of this works power and complexity lie in Latimers relationship with Bertha, whom he ultimately, unhappily, marries. Bertha is the one person whose thoughts and feelings he is not able to read, raising the question: What is it about Bertha that renders her inaccessible to his psychic penetration and what does this tell us about her, and about him. (Introduction by Kirsten Wever) Language: eng Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it |
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01a - Chapter 1, Part 1
Episode 1
Wednesday, 31 December, 1969
