The grand, sprawling epic that is Middlemarch is about many things. It is about social and political reform. But it's also a novel about love and marriage. And about trying and failing. And about second chances. It boasts multiple plots with a large ...
George Eliot’s “An English Dinner of Thanksgiving” is excerpted from her 1859 novel “Adam Bede”. In it, wealthy farmer Martin Poyser throws a feast at harvest-time for his assorted workers. Much beef is eaten and much ale is drank. Lusty to...
Mary Anne Evans was born on 22nd November 1819 at Nuneaton in Warwickshire, England, As a child she was a committed reader and brimmed with intelligence. Her father felt that her lack of physical beauty might not bring her the best selection of suito...
Middlemarch by George Eliot is a magnum opus of Victorian literature that unfolds with the grace and complexity of a masterfully woven tapestry. Set in the fictitious provincial town of Middlemarch, the novel delves deep into the intricacies of human...
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available a...
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available a...
One of the many astounding works where Eliot deals with Christian values in a provincial setting. She imparts psychological depth to the characters and lends a realistic touch to her works. As the characters fight and survive in the battle of life, t...
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 acquiring that good...
Carpenter Adam Bede is in love with the beautiful Hetty Sorrel, but unknown to him, he has a rival, in the local squire's son Arthur Donnithorne. Hetty is soon attracted by Arthur's seductive charm and they begin to meet in secret. The relationship i...
George Eliot was a prominent British author during the Victorian era. Eliot, born Mary Ann Evans, decided to use a male pen name because she believed readers would take her work more seriously. Many of Eliot’s novels are among the most ...
Daniel Deronda is a novel by George Eliot, first published in 1876. It was the last novel she completed, coming after Middlemarch and Felix Holt and the only one set in the contemporary Victorian society of her day. Its mixture of social satire an...
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and...
George Eliot was a prominent British author during the Victorian era. Eliot, born Mary Ann Evans, decided to use a male pen name because she believed readers would take her work more seriously. Many of Eliot’s novels are among the most ...
''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 clairvoyanc...
The Mill on the Floss' tells the devastating story of young Maggie Tulliver, and how her struggles against the constraints of her community nearly destroy her relationship with her beloved brother Tom. The novel spans a period of 10 to 15 years and d...
One of George Eliot''s most ambitious and imaginative novels, Romola is set in Renaissance Florence during the turbulent years following the expulsion of the powerful Medici family during which the zealous religious reformer Savonarola rose to contro...
George Eliot was a prominent British author during the Victorian era. Eliot, born Mary Ann Evans, decided to use a male pen name because she believed readers would take her work more seriously. Many of Eliot’s novels are among the most ...
Another classic converted by eBooksLib.com.In the days when the spinning-wheels hummed busily in the farmhouses " and even great ladies, clothed in silk and thread-lace, had their toy spinning-wheels of polished oak " there might be seen in dist...
This adaptation of George Eliot's beloved novel The Mill on the Floss will engage and delight readers young and old alike. The story focuses on the lives of a pair of siblings, Tom and Maggie Tulliver, who grow up in a bucolic but hardscrabble rural ...