Brother Jacob by George Eliot - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)

By George Eliot

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• Language: English
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• Release date: Jul 17, 2017
• ISBN: 9781788770095

George Eliot

George Eliot (1819–1880), born Mary Ann Evans, was an English writer best known for her poetry and novels. She grew up in a conservative environment where she received a Christian education. An avid reader, Eliot expanded her horizons on religion, science and free thinkers. Her earliest writings included an anonymous English translation of The Life of Jesus in 1846 before embracing a career as a fiction writer. Some of her most notable works include Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss(1860) and Silas Marner.

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The Complete Works of

GEORGE ELIOT

VOLUME 10 OF 22

Brother Jacob

Parts Edition

By Delphi Classics, 2014

Version 5

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‘Brother Jacob’

George Eliot: Parts Edition (in 22 parts)

First published in the United Kingdom in 2017 by Delphi Classics.

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George Eliot: Parts Edition

This eBook is Part 10 of the Delphi Classics edition of George Eliot in 22 Parts. It features the unabridged text of Brother Jacob from the bestselling edition of the author’s Complete Works. Having established their name as the leading publisher of classic literature and art, Delphi Classics produce publications that are individually crafted with superior formatting, while introducing many rare texts for the first time in digital print. Our Parts Editions feature original annotations and illustrations relating to the life and works of George Eliot, as well as individual tables of contents, allowing you to navigate eBooks quickly and easily.

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GEORGE ELIOT

IN 22 VOLUMES

Parts Edition Contents

The Novels

1, Adam Bede

2, The Mill on the Floss

3, Silas Marner

4, Romola

5, Felix Holt the Radical

6, Middlemarch

7, Daniel Deronda

The Shorter Fiction

8, Scenes of Clerical Life

9, The Lifted Veil

10, Brother Jacob

The Poetry

11, The Complete Poems

The Translations

12, The Life of Jesus Critically Examined by Dr. David Friedrich Strauss

13, The Essence of Christianity by Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach

The Non-Fiction

14, Three Months in Weimar

15, Impressions of Theophrastus Such

16, Miscellaneous Essays

The Criticism

17, The Criticism

The Biographies

18, George Eliot’s Life as Related in Her Letters and Journals

19, George Eliot by Mathilde Blind

20, The Life of George Eliot by John Morley

21, George Eliot by Sarah Knowles Bolton

22, George Eliot by Hattie Tyng Griswold

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Brother Jacob

Brother Jacob is a short story that was first published in Blackwood’s Magazine in 1859 as a companion piece to the now better known and more widely read The Lifted Veil. The tale is divided into four sections and begins with a young boy, David Faux, who is a selfish, self-centred child that wishes for both glory and an easy life of reward, without exerting himself too much. David notices an expensive, high end confectionary store and he comes to believe that confectioners are the most popular in retail and he will pursue that line of work. However, once he realises that this aim requires much more work, and far less recognition and prestige than he hoped and imagined, he determines that it would be far better to set his sights upon a different end.

The story traces through his underhand, devious and audacious attempts to secure the future he desires. These include using his brother Jacob and having little regard for his family or those close to him. The tale is an interesting example of Eliot’s earlier work and differs greatly from the calm spaciousness and intricate style of her most famous novels.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I

CHAPTER II

CHAPTER III

CHAPTER I

Among the many fatalities attending the bloom of young desire, that of blindly taking to the confectionery line has not, perhaps, been sufficiently considered. How is the son of a British yeoman, who has been fed principally on salt pork and yeast dumplings, to know that there is satiety for the human stomach even in a paradise of glass jars full of sugared almonds and pink lozenges, and that the tedium of life can reach a pitch where plum-buns at discretion cease to offer the slightest excitement? Or how, at the tender age when a confectioner seems to him a very prince whom all the world must envy — who breakfasts on macaroons, dines on meringues, sups on twelfth-cake, and fills up the intermediate hours with sugar-candy or peppermint — how is he to foresee the day of sad wisdom, when he will discern that the confectioner’s calling is not socially influential, or favourable to a soaring ambition? I have known a man who turned out to have a metaphysical genius, incautiously, in the period of youthful buoyancy, commence his career as a dancing-master; and you may imagine the use that was made of this initial mistake by opponents who felt themselves bound to warn the public against his doctrine of the Inconceivable. He could not give up his dancing-lessons, because he made his bread by them, and metaphysics would not have found him in so much as salt to his bread. It