Scenes of Clerical Life

About this film

LibriVox recording of Scenes of Clerical Life by George Eliot. Read by Bruce Pirie. Scenes of Clerical Life, which appeared in book form in 1858 (after serial publication in the previous year), was the first published fiction by George Eliot, the pen name for Mary Anne Evans. It consists of three novellas based on the lives of country clergymen and their communities. These characters interest Eliot not for their theology — she had abandoned conventional Christian belief — but for their humanity. In these stories, we find the earliest signs of the narrative voice, the humanism, and the realism that would make George Eliot one of the greatest novelists of the 1800s. (Introduction by Bruce Pirie) For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording. For more free audio books, or to become a volunteer reader, please visit LibriVox.org . Download M4B Amos(91MB) Download M4B Gilfil(146MB) Download M4B Janet(198MB)

Directors & creators

George Eliot

Subjects

librivox; audio; novel; eliot

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