Originally appearing in Blackwood's Magazine in 1857, these stories contain Eliot's earliest studies of what became enduring themes in her novels: the impact of... » 

Originally appearing in Blackwood's Magazine in 1857, these stories contain Eliot's earliest studies of what became enduring themes in her novels: the impact of religious controversy and social change in provincial life, and the power of love to transform the lives of individual men and women. «