Lifted Veil (Version 2)
Author: first_name: George
last_name: Eliot
Language: English
Year: 1859

George Eliot’s 1859 novella, The Lifted Veil, departs radically from the grounded realism of her longer and better known works, such as Middlemarch and Daniel Deronda. Its tone calls to mind the works of middlebrow Sensationists, like Wilkie Collins (The Moonstone), and of some of the better known authors of Victorian era horror writings, such as Bram Stoker (Dracula) and Mary Shelley (Frankenstein).<br><br>

Eliot here explores mystical themes, considering the world of phenomena which are fel