George Eliot's first work of fiction, Scenes of Clerical Life, appeared serially in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine in 1857. It was immediately recognized as, in the words of the Saturday Review, "the production of a peculiar and remarkable writer whose style showed little or no family resemblances with that of any living author." Using the first edition of 1858 as copy text, this edition records all substantive variants in the manuscript and subsequent editions of the book over which the author had control. The editor's introduction gives a detailed history of the writing and publication of the work, as well as a description of the manuscript and lists of emandations and variant spellings.
- ISBN10 3734060508
- ISBN13 9783734060502
- Publish Date 25 September 2019 (first published 30 August 1973)
- Publish Status Active
- Imprint Outlook Verlag
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 382
- Language English