The Lifted Veil

[Read by Clive Chafer] George Eliot's The Lifted Veil was first published in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine in 1859 and has now become one of the author's most widely read and critically discussed stories. Told from the point of view of a young, egocentric, and morbid clairvoyant man, Latimer, it is a dark fantasy portrait of an artist whose visionary powers merely blight his life. The story reflected the scientific interest of the time in the physiology of the brain, mesmerism, phrenology, and experiments in revivification. It also is a reflection of the author's moral philosophy. The Lifted Veil is a significant part of the Victorian tradition of horror fiction, along with Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and Bram Stoker's Dracula.

About the Author

George Eliot, the pen name of Mary Ann, or Marian, Evans (1819-1880), was one of England's greatest novelists. She is known for her sensitive and honest depiction of life and people, especially the moral development and psychological analysis of her characters in works that are acclaimed as classics.

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