The Lifted Veil and Brother Jacob - Tapa blanda

Mary Ann Evans, one of the most brilliant of Victorian novelists, published under the pen name 'George Eliot, she said, because she wanted her works to be taken seriously and to distance herself from the women novelists whom she considered silly. She was the assistant editor of the left - leaning Westminster Review, to which she contributed many literary essays. From 1854 on, she lived with G. H. Lewes. By 1859, she was celebrity novelist, and she wrote popular novels for the next 15 years.

These Victorian fables by Eliot give simultaneous revelation of egoism and humanity. Despite being short both stories are masterpieces in themselves. “Lifted Veil” is about the significant altering affects of psychic powers and “Brother Jacob” describes the selfishness and conceit common to mankind.