{"product_id":"9781612192499","title":"The Lifted Veil","description":"\u003cb\u003eHorror was my familiar.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Published the same year as her first  novel, \u003ci\u003eAdam Bede\u003c\/i\u003e, this overlooked work displays the gifts for which George Eliot  would become famous—gritty realism, psychological insight, and idealistic moralizing.  It is unique from all her other writing, however, in that it represents the only  time she ever used a first-person narrator, and it is the only time she wrote about  the supernatural.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The tale of a man who is incapacitated by visions of the future  and the cacophony of overheard thoughts, and yet who can’t help trying to subvert  his vividly glimpsed destiny, it is easy to read \u003ci\u003eThe Lifted Veil \u003c\/i\u003eas being autobiographically  revealing—of Eliot’s sensitivity to public opinion and her awareness that her days  concealed behind a pseudonym were doomed to a tragic unveiling (as indeed came to  pass soon after this novella’s publication). But it is easier still to read the story  as the exciting and genuine precursor of a moody new form, as well as an absorbing  early masterpiece of suspense.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eThe Art of The Novella Series\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eToo short to be a novel, too long to be a short story, the novella is generally unrecognized by academics and publishers. Nonetheless, it is a form beloved and practiced by literature's greatest writers. In the Art Of The Novella series, Melville House celebrates this renegade art form and its practitioners with titles that are, in many instances, presented in book form for the first time.","brand":"Melville House Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47135388205296,"sku":"9781612192499","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781612192499_p0.jpg?v=1763841853","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781612192499","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}