The Lifted Veil (Fantasy and Horror Classics)

This rare venture into the supernatural by the master of realism, George Eliot, is a devastating psychological horror story that asks: What is the true price of seeing too clearly?

Latimer is a man cursed. Afflicted by a severe illness, he awakens with a terrifying and unwanted "superadded consciousness." He can read the thoughts of everyone around him, glimpsing their petty motivations, shallow ambitions, and secret malice. Every social interaction becomes a cacophony of triviality and inn...