The lifted veil - Folio Society edition

The lifted veil

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The lifted veil - Folio Society edition
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The lifted veil
Folio Society
Literature

The lifted veil

Edition year 2005
Binding Cloth
Illustrator Peter Suart
Weight 2 Kg
Pages 498
Dimensions 25 × 17.6 cm

Edition details

The Lifted Veil: Women's 19th Century Stories. Introduced By Kathryn Hughes. 12 colour illustrations by Peter Suart. Includes the work of Jane Austen, Mary Shelley, Charlotte Bronte, Louisa May Alcott, Edith Wharton and Mary Elizabeth Braddon. Red pictorial cloth boards. Dark blue endpapers. Dark blue slipcase. 498pp. 25x17.6cm

About the book

George Eliot's The Lifted Veil is a dark psychological and supernatural novella exploring telepathy, visions of the future, isolation and the unsettling consequences of knowing too much about other people. The story follows Latimer, a sensitive and unhappy man who develops the ability to hear the thoughts of those around him and occasionally glimpse events yet to come. These powers become a source of anxiety rather than freedom. One person remains mysterious to him: Bertha Grant, whose unreadable mind fascinates him and draws him into a relationship filled with uncertainty. Eliot uses the supernatural premise to examine obsession, mistrust, loneliness and the darker possibilities of intimate knowledge.

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