In the Midlands town of Treby Magna, after the first Reform Act, Harold Transome comes home from the East to stand for Parliament as a Radical, to his Tory family’s dismay. Felix Holt, a watchmaker who scorns ambition, has other ideas of reform, and Esther Lyon, the dissenting minister’s refined daughter, finds herself between them as a legal secret about the Transome estate surfaces.
Eliot’s political novel, quieter than Middlemarch but just as shrewd about character and conscience. Download the free EPUB.