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15 de jan. de 2023 · Impressions of Theophrastus Such. 240 pages, 6 x 9 Hardcover Release Date:15 Jan 2023 ISBN:9781988963396. Ed. Henry M. Wallace. Impressions of Theophrastus Such is the last and perhaps the most personal book written by George Eliot. An unconventional counterpart and an edifying conclusion to her novels, it illustrates and interprets the moral ...
22 de nov. de 2017 · Impressions of Theophrastus Such is a work of fiction by George Eliot, first published in 1879. It was Eliot's last published writing and her most experimental, taking the form of a series of literary essays by an imaginary minor scholar whose eccentric character is revealed through his work.
- George Eliot, Mary Anne Evans
Next, one opens Impressions of Theophrastus Such, and is too exhausted to see it, and gives up bitterly, not liking one bit the defeat against the very German style writing - where one has to read, reread, and repeat, before it faintly dawns what the long sentence says.
30 de ago. de 2016 · Let's face it: Impressions of Theophrastus Such can be a pretty dreary book. It's all too easy to put it down, especially if you happen to be in the middle of a particularly heavy-handed passage in “The Watch-Dog of Knowledge” or “Debasing the Moral Currency.”
I gather, too, from the undeniable testimony of his disciple Theophrastus that there were bores, ill-bred persons, and detractors even in Athens, of species remarkably corresponding to the English, and not yet made endurable by being classic; and, altogether, with my present fastidious nostril, I feel that I am the better off for possessing Athenian life solely as an inodorous fragment of ...
8 de fev. de 2008 · Impressions of Theophrastus Such by Eliot, George, 1819-1880. Publication date [188-?] Publisher New York : Harper & brothers Collection cdl; americana ...
Theophrastus Such is a personified means of knowing, present as a shadowy figure in each scene. In effect, Impressions is a miscellany shaped by no overall plan, no idea of development. Nonetheless, it reveals its themes and its typical concerns, which are often recognizable as distilled versions of characters and situations in George Eliot‘s ...
