The Ethics of George Eliot's Works

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Title: The Ethics of George Eliot's Works

Author: John Crombie Brown

Release Date: November 28, 2005 [eBook #17172]

Language: English

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Transcribed from the 1884 William Blackwood and Sons edition by David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk

THE ETHICS OF GEORGE ELIOT'S WORKS

BY THE LATE JOHN CROMBIE BROWN

FOURTH EDITION

WILLIAM BLACKWOOD AND SONS EDINBURGH AND LONDON MDCCCLXXXIV

PREFACE.

The greater part of the following Essay was written several years ago. It was too long for any of the periodicals to which the author had been in the habit of occasionally contributing, and no thought was then entertained of publishing it in a separate form. One day, however, during his last illness, the talk happened to turn on George Eliot's Works, and he mentioned his long-forgotten paper. One of the friends then present--a competent critic and high literary authority--expressed a wish to see it, and his opinion was so favourable that its publication was determined on. The author the

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