THE critic’s first duty in the presnce of an author’s collective works is to seek out some key to his method, some utterance of his literary convictions, some indication of his ruling theory.

She is one of English literature's best-known novelists but, despite her fame, several of George Eliot's former homes have fallen off the tourist trail. Fans of the author, who spent much of her ...

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