George Eliot

Felix Holt, The Radical George Eliot Illustrated edition

- Felix Holt is the captivating tale of political intrigue in a mid-nineteenth century English town. The central character is an opinionated radical running against a wealthy landowner in the local elections. All sorts of dark secrets begin to emerge and the town erupts into riots during which a police constable is killed and the complications deepen. Eliot wrote the novel just a few years before Middlemarch for which she would become best-known. - Just as accessible and enjoyable for today's modern readers as it would have been when first published over a century ago, the novel is one of the great works of English literature and continues to be widely read throughout the world- This meticulous edition from Heritage Illustrated Publishing is a faithful reproduction of the original text.