# Felix Holt, the Radical

By George Eliot.

"Felix Holt, the Radical" by George Eliot is a social and political novel published in 1866. Set during England's 1832 Reform Act, the story follows an idealistic working-class watchmaker who fights corruption while Harold Transome, an opportunistic landowner, runs for Parliament as a Radical. At the center stands Esther Lyon, who discovers she's the secret heiress to the Transome estate and must choose between a life of wealth with Harold or principled poverty with Felix—a decision symbolizing the novel's deeper conflict between social values. (Summary by Project Gutenberg, written by machine.)

- Language: English
- Subjects: England -- Fiction; Love stories; Domestic fiction; Fathers and daughters -- Fiction; Political fiction; Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Fiction; Radicals -- Fiction; Legal stories; Elections -- Fiction

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