β Scribed by Eliot, George
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'Why did she stand before me with the candle in her hand, with her cruel contemptuous eyes fixed on me, and the glittering serpent, like a familiar demon, on her breast?'
In this dark novella of Victorian horror, George Eliot explores clairvoyance, fate and the possibility of life after death.
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