Scenes of Clerical Life

Three novellas that brilliantly portray English country and clergy life at the turn of the nineteenth century from the author of Middlemarch.

Initially appearing in Blackwood's Magazine, this trio of linked stories comprises George Eliot's first published work. Together they form a portrait of small-town life in Midlands, England, where changes are affecting both society at large and religious beliefs and institutions.

In "The Sad Fortunes of Reverend Amos Barton," the clergyman strugg...