Felix Holt, the Radical (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

By George Eliot

Published in 1866, Eliot's novel focuses on politics and romance in the small English town of Treby Magna.  A wealthy young nobleman, Harold Transome, stands for Parliament as a “Radical.”  Felix Holt, idealistic but poor, opposes him.  Their political race mirrors the love triangle that includes the beautiful but vain Esther Lyon, who finds herself drawn to the impoverished Holt despite herself.  

• Language: English
• Publisher: Barnes & Noble
• Release date: Feb 22, 2011
• ISBN: 9781411435773

George Eliot

George Eliot was the pseudonym for Mary Anne Evans, one of the leading writers of the Victorian era, who published seven major novels and several translations during her career. She started her career as a sub-editor for the left-wing journal The Westminster Review, contributing politically charged essays and reviews before turning her attention to novels. Among Eliot’s best-known works are Adam Bede, The Mill on the Floss, Silas Marner, Middlemarch and Daniel Deronda, in which she explores aspects of human psychology, focusing on the rural outsider and the politics of small-town life. Eliot died in 1880.