false <![CDATA[The Lifted Veil]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172852669m/223222.jpg 223222 15 <p>The master of realism, George Eliot, makes a daring departure in this dark tale of ESP, mesmerism, and telepathy. In this little-known story-the only thing she ever wrote using a first-person voice-she explores the psychological state of a man who can read people's minds and see into the future, then finds himself in danger when he falls in love with a woman whose mind he can't read.</p> 2366204 book 1878 The Lifted Veil total:69|5:7|4:21|3:27|2:13|1:1| 69 227 113 15 3 2 false false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Thu Sep 10 06:00:53 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 13 15:49:59 -0700 2009 1 more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Nov 10 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 18 10:51:36 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 18 10:58:05 -0800 2009 Murder, She Wrote. But the prose style is gorgeous, and I felt all swoony and doomy while reading it, and that's a perfectly good feeling to have on rainy November days.

Some of my favorite passages:

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Despite all that, it is most likely going to stay the only George Eliot book I will ever read.]]> 2 0 false false Thu Nov 26 13:26:09 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 26 13:26:09 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Thu Nov 12 12:18:08 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 12 12:18:18 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Thu Nov 12 04:57:03 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 12 13:12:02 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Sat Nov 07 14:44:51 -0800 2009 Sat Nov 07 14:44:51 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Mon Nov 02 20:45:41 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 02 20:45:41 -0800 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=223222