Felix Holt, the Radical by George Eliot
"Felix Holt, the Radical" by George Eliot is a social and political novel published in 1866. Set during England's 1832 Reform Act, the story follows an idealistic working-class watchmaker who fights corruption while Harold Transome, an opportunistic landowner, runs for Parliament as a Radical. At the center stands Esther Lyon, who discovers she's the secret heiress to the Transome estate and must choose between a life of wealth with Harold or principled
poverty with Felix—a decision symbolizing the novel's deeper conflict between social values. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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About this eBook
| Author | Eliot, George, 1819-1880 |
|---|---|
| Title | Felix Holt, the Radical |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_Holt,_the_Radical |
| Credits | Juliet Sutherland, Jane Robins and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 66.8 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PR: Language and Literatures: English literature |
| Subject | England -- Fiction |
| Subject | Love stories |
| Subject | Domestic fiction |
| Subject | Fathers and daughters -- Fiction |
| Subject | Political fiction |
| Subject | Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Fiction |
| Subject | Radicals -- Fiction |
| Subject | Legal stories |
| Subject | Elections -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 40882 |
| Release Date | Sep 28, 2012 |
| Most Recently Updated | Oct 23, 2024 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
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