I actually downloaded the Project Gutenberg version of this for iBooks on the iPad and was surprised to find how awesomely easy it is to read classic literature on it. The built in dictionary in iBooks works without being connected to wifi, and since we don't have a 3G iPad this was very convenient.

As far as the novella goes, it read a lot like a ghost story, it was creepy and in some ways dissimilar from alot of George Elliot that I have read. The Lifted Veil is about a sensitive and sickly isolated boy who finds that his sensitivities endow him with powers of intuition into others thoughts and memories. There are some typical George Elliot elements, like a love triangle and a tragic and abrupt death, but overall I'd recommend this to those who have already read Elliot classics like Silas Marner, The Mill on The Floss, and Middlemarch. Readers new to George Elliot may not dig it that much.