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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing’s Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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First published in 1860, this is a vivid portrayal of childhood and adolescence in rural England. One of George Eliot's best-loved works, this novel is a perceptive study of provincial life, a brilliant evocation of the complexities of human relationships, and a compelling portrait of a young woman whose rebellious spirit closely resembles Eliot's own. ... Read more

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Female sacrifice...

As Maggie Tulliver searches to fulfill herself while still being morally responsible, she increasingly comes into conflict with her beloved brother Tom and her community.Caught within the rigid societal structure of 19th-century rural England, Maggie becomes its victim as she struggles not to lose everything and everyone she loves while trying to remain true to herself.

Fizzled Out
This book starts strong; with quirky, believable characters and a poignant setting that was obviously a well-loved memory of the author's childhood. I frequently laughed out loud at some antic of Maggie's or a description of her woodenheaded, morally upright Aunt Glegg.

Once the characters grew up, however, it degenerated into a tragic romance with Maggie as `Mary Sue', and the ending! - don't get me started.

A Proustian Predecessor
This was a very engrossing reread for me.Maggie Tulliver is indeed a very sympathetic and engrossing character and Eliot's writing is superb. I (like Marie Ann Evans herself) much prefer this powerful, diluvian tempest of a novel to what is considered her masterpiece, Middlemarch, for several reasons: It has more of the author's passion in it.It has more of the fullness of human nature, in general, in it and, most of all, I finally understand - My first reading of this book was as an adolescent. - Eliot's influence on Proust.

In describing Maggie's childhood to the reader, Eliot asks: "Is there any one who can recover the experience of his childhood, not merely with a memory of what he did and what happened to him, of what he liked and disliked when he was in frock and trousers, but with an intimate penetration, a revived consciousness - when it was so long from one Midsummer to another?" A madeleine anyone?

Any high-strung, sensitive reader is bound to relate intensely to poor, fierce, impressionable Maggie's travails.She is so sensitive that Eliot describes her as having "little more power of concealing the impressions made upon her than if she had been constructed of musical strings."And she has Maggie herself say: "Certain strains of music affect me so strangely - I can never hear them without changing my whole attitude for a time, and if the effect would last, I might be capable of heroisms." One is reminded of the "little passage" from Vinteuil's sonata and its profound effect upon Swann and, later, upon Proust's narrator himself.

But, back to the novel itself: It really has nothing of the drawing rooms of Jane Austen in it - save to set these settings in relief for the reader's ridicule.It more resembles the novels of the Brontes, particularly Emily's Wuthering Heights and parts of Charlotte's Villette.It also contains what I consider one of the finest statements advocating the reading of great literature found anywhere.Thus, this passage (End of Book VII, Chapter II) is worth quoting at length:

"All people of broad, strong sense have an instinctive repugnance to men of maxims; because such people early discern that the mysterious complexity of our life is not to be embraced by maxims, and that to lace ourselves up in formulas of that sort is to repress all the divine promptings and inspirations that spring from growing insight and sympathy."

The only reasons I'm giving it four rather than five stars are due to a certain unevenness in narrative voice that jars at times and to a Dickensian flatness of some of the characters.Nevertheless, recommended to all readers of "broad, strong sense," who might just want to pick up Proust after reading this truly harrowing novel by a worthy predecessor.

Classic Literature: Beautiful Writing, Memorable Characters and Philosophical Lessons
I liked "Middlemarch" but did not love it, so when I decided to read this novel, I was a bit wary of it. I loved these characters and I think that this novel is a profound statement on morality, siblings and class envy. I would definitely recommend this to anyone who loves classic literature. It's now one of my new favorites from the 19th century!

Great book, cheap ending
The story is great, and the characters absorbing. I was hooked. I liked it tons better than "Adam Bede" with its snotty, stuck-up stilted characters. The characters in this one have personality and funny quirks.

The ending, however, is awful. I think she got sick of writing this, because she cuts it off short in a bizarre and contrived manner. Very unsatisfying. I had hoped for a more subtle ending. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from School Psychology Review, published by National Association of School Psychologists on December 1, 2009. The length of the article is 8988 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Content-specific strategies to advocate for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender youth: an exploratory study.(Report)
Author: Emily C. Graybill
Publication: School Psychology Review (Magazine/Journal)
Date: December 1, 2009
Publisher: National Association of School Psychologists
Volume: 38Issue: 4Page: 570(15)

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This digital document is an article from Epoca, published by Difusora de Informacion Periodica, S.A. (DINPESA) on January 24, 2000. The length of the article is 921 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Las cenizas de Angela.(reseña cinematográfica)(TT: Angela's Ashes.)(TA: film review)(Reseña)
Publication: Epoca (Magazine/Journal)
Date: January 24, 2000
Publisher: Difusora de Informacion Periodica, S.A. (DINPESA)
Page: 64

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This digital document is an article from Siempre!, published by Edicional Siempre on July 25, 2001. The length of the article is 1080 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Nabokov traicionado a la holandesa.(La estrategia de Luzhin)(TT: Betrayal of Nabokov in the Dutch manner.)(TA: The Luzhin Defense)(Reseña)
Author: Tomás Pérez Turrent
Publication: Siempre! (Refereed)
Date: July 25, 2001
Publisher: Edicional Siempre
Volume: 48Issue: 2510Page: 58

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This digital document is an article from Proceso, published by CISA Comunicacion e Informacion, S.A. de C.V. on July 8, 2001. The length of the article is 702 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Cine: "La estrategia de Luzhin".(TT: Cinema: The Luzhin Defence.)(Reseña)
Author: Javier Betancourt
Publication: Proceso (Magazine/Journal)
Date: July 8, 2001
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Fiction. First published in U.K. in 1994. Never released in the U.S. This mystery involves the story of Emily in fin de siecle Vienna, a young woman horribly distraught because of the murder of a British diplomat, a murder she believes she committed. But did she? Her therapist, Dr. Sigmund Freud, suggests to his colleagues that she is fantasizing. Sara, her colleague/lover, is supportive of her regardless of what she did. It takes the famous Sherlock Holmes, called in by Scotland Yard, to resolve this issue. This highly psychological mystery keeps a reader wondering until the final pages. This book was eleven weeks on the Globe and Mail best seller list. It was reprinted four times before being reissued as a Minerva paperback. It was shortlisted for the Mind Prize in UK, and it won the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Novel. ... Read more

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The Case of Emily V.
The Case of Emily V is the combination of Emily's diary entries while in therapy with Sigmund Freud, Freud's case notes as he delivers them to a weekly meeting of his colleagues, and then followed by the case of the missing British diplomat being tracked down by Sherlock Holmes. It happens that the diplomat is the godfather and guardian of Emily and Emily killed him. The murder is no surprise, she writes about it in her diary and also the reason why. The problem is will she be caught and prosecuted or will Holmes and Watson understand and leave it "unsolved".

The interleaving of the diary and case notes with the narrative works very well. The time period is splendid as women were just beginning to realize they'd gotten a raw deal and wanted more rights and freedoms. Emily and her friend Sara are women of their times. They know where they stand in society and they also know what they want and that they have to balance their desires with what will be accepted. And they know what mask to put on to manage to have what they want and to seem to be what society at their level demands.

As for the psychoanalysis with Freud, well it gave me a lot of laughs since we know from Emily's diary what really happened and we know from the case notes what he's disbelieved and ignored as hysteria on the part of Emily. Or, maybe it was just funny to me because I majored in psychology and I never did think Freud understood women -- he only understood his society's view of women through his own prejudices, but then he was a man of his times too.

As for Holmes and Watson, they're spot on if you've read all the Arthur Conan Doyle books. All in all this is a wonderful pastiche and might have been story, that brings Freud, Holmes, and Watson together. I thought it was a wonderful way to pull off the story.

superb historiographic analysis of Freud and Holmes
Few situations if ever have come to light like this one uncovered by the author that enables the reader to draw conclusions on the thought processes of two famous individuals from almost a century ago.Keith Oatley has found three manuscripts from the late nineteenth century on the same subject, but with differing perspectives that shed a light on Sherlock Holmes as the investigation has been written up by Dr. John Watson and a psychoanalysis case study conducted by Dr. Sigmund Freud in his own words.The third entry enables the audience to determine even further the truth is a journal written by their mutual subject Vienna classics teacher Emily V.

In 1904 Vienna Emily V cannot sleep due to evil dreams and who cannot eat due to delicious smells making her nauseous.She knows why as she killed Charles S.She has seen Professor Freud, the physician at the urgings of Sara and knows someone from England investigates.She ponders just telling everyone the truth that she suffers from guilt because she is guilty.

THE CASE OF EMILY V rotates perspective between the title star, Watson's case description, and Freud's presentations and notes.The story line grips the reader from the start as a historiographic analysis of Freud and Holmes (in the sleuth's case through a Watson filter) makes their "meeting" genuine.The two celebrities stay in character throughout even when they learn they share the same case though one from a mental health viewpoint and the other from a homicide stance.Freud is arrogant as he pompously knows it all while Holmes is smug and moodily knows it all.Though the encounter has been written in THE SEVEN-PER-CENT SOLUTION, this is a more exhilarating novel as the audience becomes more enthralled with the minds of the characters.

Harriet Klausner
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Chapters: Natalee Scripps, Judi Doull, Rebecca Rolls, Emily Drumm, Bev Brentnall, Pat Carrick, Rona Mckenzie, Helen Watson, Karen Plummer, Jos Burley, Jackie Lord, Carol Marett, Ros Kember, Ingrid Jagersma, Ingrid Cronin-Knight, Victoria Lind. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 40. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Natalee Scripps (born 9 December 1978) is a female New Zealand cricketer who played one Test and seven One Day Internationals for New Zealand national women's cricket team between 2003 and 2005. Scripps made her senior debut for Auckland Hearts in the 19992000 season against Otago Sparks, and has played for the Auckland side ever since. She is the leading wicket-taker in New Zealand women's domestic cricket, with over 150 one-day wickets. ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=10386058 ... Read more