Description
Set in a Midlands town at the turn of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, this collection offers a vivid, unsentimental portrait of clerical life—where sermons, reputations, and private sorrows intertwine. Across its stories, readers follow the struggles of a struggling preacher whose lack of influence and mounting hardship expose the quiet costs of faith and duty, alongside a romance shadowed by unspoken feeling and the weight of memory. With keen psychological insight and a realist’s eye for everyday detail, the author illuminates how love, class, and conscience shape the lives of ordinary people. Rich in atmosphere and moral complexity, these tales reveal that the most consequential dramas often unfold not in grand events, but in rooms, relationships, and the choices that follow heartbreak.
Available Editions
paperback
BiblioBazaar
Published Jun 18, 2007
436 pages
ISBN: 9781434629067
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Details
First Published
1857
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Scenes of Clerical Life by George Eliot.