Felix Holt, the radical
| dc.contributor | Oxford Text Archive |
| dc.contributor.author | Eliot, George, 1819-1880 |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-06-14 |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2019-07-04T10:32:44Z |
| dc.date.available | 2019-07-04T10:32:44Z |
| dc.date.created | 1866 |
| dc.identifier | ota:3140 |
| dc.identifier.citation | http://purl.ox.ac.uk/ota/3140 |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12024/3140 |
| dc.description.abstract | First edition published in 1866. |
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| dc.language | English |
| dc.language.iso | eng |
| dc.publisher | University of Oxford |
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| dc.relation.replaces | http://purl.ox.ac.uk/ota/2218 |
| dc.rights | Distributed by the University of Oxford under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ |
| dc.rights.label | PUB |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Fiction -- Great Britain -- 19th century |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Novels -- Great Britain -- 19th century |
| dc.title | Felix Holt, the radical |
| dc.type | Text |
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| files.count | 5 |
| otaterms.date.range | 1800-1899 |
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Felix Holt, The Radical
by
George Eliot
Introduction
FIVE-AND-THIRTY years ago the glory had not yet departed from the old coach-roads; the great roadside inns were still brilliant with well-polished tankards, the smiling glances of pretty barmaids, and the repartees of jocose ostlers; the mail still announced itself by the merry notes of the horn; the hedge-cutter or the rick-thatcher might still know the exact hour by the unfailing yet otherwise meteoric apparition of the peagreen Tally-ho or the yellow Independent; and elderly gentlemen in pony-chaises, quartering nervously to make way for the rolling swinging swiftness, had not ceased to remark that times were finely changed since they used to see the pack-horses and hear the tinkling of their bells on their very highway.
In those days there were pocket boroughs, a Birmingham unrepresented in parliament and compelled to make strong representations out of it, unrepealed corn laws, three-and-sixpenny letters, a brawny and many-breedi . . .
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