Who is the English novelist worthy of comparison with Tolstoy? The name of George Eliot immediately suggests itself, though even Middlemarch does not have the range of War and Peace. What Henry James said of Eliot - that she is 'also a good deal of a…
In the last issue of the Review, Nicola Harris, in her Fellowship Prize Essay, discussed the dif-ferent attitudes of Hardy and George Eliot to 'moral perception'.' In the course of her argu-ment she refers to an article of mine, published several…
