This masterpiece of love, rejection, and reconciliation is the story of Maggie Tulliver and her resourceful but insensitive brother Tom, as they grow up in the narrowly puritanical atmosphere of rural Victorian society. Too intelligen...

Rebellious and affectionate, Maggie Tulliver is always in trouble. Recalling her own experiences as a girl, George Eliot describes Maggie’s turbulent childhood with a sympathetic engagement that makes the early chapters of The M...

According to The Oxford Companion to English Literature (1967), "the plot is founded on a story told to George Eliot by her aunt Elizabeth Evans, a Methodist preacher, and the original of Dinah Morris of the novel, of a confess...

Among the many fatalities attending the bloom of young desire, that of blindly taking to the confectionery line has not, perhaps, been sufficiently considered. How is the son of a British yeoman, who has been fed principally on salt p...

A revealing portrait of the hypocrisy and superficiality of high society, George Eliot's final novel also provides a glimpse of Jewish life in Victorian Britain. Daniel Deronda traces the intertwined lives of two markedly different ch...

Was she beautiful or not beautiful? and what was the secret of form or expression which gave thedynamic quality to her glance? Was the good or the evil genius dominant in those beams? Probablythe evil; else why was the effect that of ...

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First published in 1876, "Daniel Deronda" was George Eliot's final novel. Controversial in its time for its morally ambiguous characterizations and its sympathy for the proto-Zionist movement, the novel is regarded today as ...

Felix Holt is an endearing but opinionated Radical, who returns to Treby Magna just as the wealthy landowner, Harold Transome, announces his bid for election. It marks the beginning of a tumultuous time as unethical players seek to un...

Mary Anne Evans was born in 1819. Her Father did not consider her a great beauty and thought her chances of marriage were slim. He therefore invested in her education and by the time she was 16 she had boarded at several schools acq...

How Lisa loved the king is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1869. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition...

George Eliot's most ambitious novel is a masterly evocation of diverse lives and changing fortunes in a provincial community.Set against the cultural and social fluctuations of the nineteenth century, Middlemarch features a vivid cast...

Dorothea Brooke is an ardent idealist who represses her vivacity and intelligence for the cold, theological pedant Casaubon. One man understands her true nature: the artist Will Ladislaw. But how can love triumph against her sense of ...

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The most ambitious narrative of nineteenth-century realism, Middlemarch tells the story of an entire town in the years leading up to the Reform Bill of 1832, a time when modern methods were starting to challenge old orthodoxies. Eliot...

Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life by George Eliot examines a fictitious Midlands town in the nineteenth century that is going through modern developments. New scientific approaches to medicine cause public debate; the projec...

George Eliot’s beloved classic novel—hailed by Virginia Woolf as “masterful”—follows the life, loves, foibles, and politics of the residents of a fictional English town set amid the social unrest of the I...

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George Eliot's novel, explores a fictional nineteenth-century Midlands town in the midst of modern changes.

Set in the turbulent years following the death of Lorenzo de' Medici, George Eliot's fourth novel, Romola, moves the stage from the English countryside of the 19th century to an Italy four centuries before her time. It tells the tale ...

To the ear of Dante, the same streets rang with the shout and clash of fierce battle between rivalfamilies; but in the fifteenth century, they were only noisy with the unhistorical quarrels and broadjests of woolcarders in the cloth-p...

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“Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.” Silas Marner is a simple weaver from Lantern Yard, an impoverished area of Northern England. He is the main protagonist who is wrongly accused of being a robber. Silas loses hi...

First published in 1861, “Silas Marner” is George Eliot’s tale of an English linen weaver. When Silas is falsely accused of stealing the funds of the small Calvinist congregation to which he belongs, his fiancé breaks off their...

Silas Marner and Two Short Stories, by BGeorge Eliot/B, is part of the IBarnes Noble ClassicsI series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful d...

In this essay, originally published anonymously in The Westminster Review(1856), George Eliot examines the state of women’s fiction in her time. She lamentingly argues that absurd and banal novels, written by well-to-do women of...

In this essay, originally published anonymously in The Westminster Review(1856), George Eliot examines the state of women’s fiction in her time. She lamentingly argues that absurd and banal novels, written by well-to-do women of...