An idealistic radical returns to a corrupt election town and loves above his station. Eliot's novel of politics and conscience.
Books mentioned in Felix Holt, the Radical (13)
Rights of Man by Thomas Paine: “Thus Treby Magna, which had lived quietly through the great earthquakes of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic wars, which had remained unmoved by the "Rights of Man," and saw little in Mr.”
King John by William Shakespeare: “A woman naturally born to fears."--_King John._”
Richard II by William Shakespeare: “Methinks, Some unborn sorrow, ripe in fortune's womb, Is coming toward me; and my inward soul With nothing trembles."--_King Richard II.”
Poems by Byron: “he saw nothing more pressing to be done than to flatten the corners of the leaves. "Byron's Poems!" he said, in a tone of disgust”
The Dream by Byron: “The Dream'--he'd better have been asleep and snoring.”
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage by Byron: “And she reads Byron also, and admires Childe Harold--gentlemen of unspeakable woes, who employ a hairdresser, and look seriously at themselves in the glass.”
Henry V by William Shakespeare: “Consideration like an angel came And whipped the offending Adam out of her; Leaving her body as a paradise To envelope and contain celestial spirits. --SHAKESPEARE: _Henry V_.”
Titus Andronicus by William Shakespeare: “I never drank with him in all my life. --_Titus Andronicus_”
Henry IV by William Shakespeare: “I will not excuse you; you shall not be excused; excuses shall not be admitted; there's no excuse shall serve; you shall not be excused."--_Henry IV.”
Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare: “Mischief, thou art afoot.--_Julius Cæsar._”
Eugene Aram by Edward Bulwer-Lytton: “Bulwer's "Eugene Aram," and being thrown back on the last great prose work of Mr.”
The Living Temple by John Howe: “Holt, and read Howe's 'Living Temple,' and join the church?"”
A Thousand and One Nights: “people seem to think he gets turned into something like the one-eyed calender in the 'Arabian Nights!'”