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 'People glorify all sorts of bravery except the bravery they might show on behalf of their nearest neighbours.'

 An epic study of provincial life at a time when England was facing rapid industrialization and increasingly fluid social mobility, Eliot's depiction of the small community of Middlemarch weaves an intricate web of different characters disparate lives as they strive to adapt to the changing world around them. Eliot was one of the first of her female contemporaries to write a novel that dealt with real-life issues and complex yet ordinary human life.

Middlemarch

Middlemarch, A Study of Provincial Life is a novel by the English author George Eliot, first published in eight instalments in 1871-1872. 

The novel is set in the fictitious Midlands town of Middlemarch during 1829-1832, and follows several distinct, intersecting stories with a large cast of characters.

Issues include the status of women, the nature of marriage, idealism, self-interest, religion, hypocrisy, political reform, and education. 

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When Tito Melema meets Romola, the daughter of a blind scholar, he quickly makes it his goal to marry her. For her part, Romola is enchanted by Tito during their courtship, but soon after they marry, she discovers life with Tito is more difficult than she imagined. Set in fifteenth-century Florence, Romola is a delightful departure from English author George Eliot's typical depictions of nineteenth-century English society, and is notable for being Eliot's only work of historical fiction. Romola was Eliot's fourth novel and turned out to be one of her least commercially successful works. Despite this, many literary critics and historians have argued that Romola was Eliot's greatest novel. HarperPerennial Classics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperPerennial Classics collection to build your digital library.

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George Eliot's tale of a solitary miser gradually redeemed by the joy of fatherhood, Silas Marner is edited with an introduction and notes by David Carroll in Penguin Classics.Wrongly accused of theft and exiled from a religious community many years before, the embittered weaver Silas Marner lives alone in Raveloe, living only for work and his precious hoard of money. But when his money is stolen and an orphaned child finds her way into his house, Silas is given the chance to transform his life. His fate, and that of Eppie, the little girl he adopts, is entwined with Godfrey Cass, son of the village Squire, who, like Silas, is trapped by his past. Silas Marner, George Eliot's favourite of her novels, combines humour, rich symbolism and pointed social criticism to create an unsentimental but affectionate portrait of rural life.This text uses the Cabinet edition, revised by George Eliot in 1878. David Carroll's introduction is complemented by the original Penguin Classics edition introduction by Q.D. Leavis.Mary Ann Evans (1819-80) began her literary career as a translator, and later editor, of the Westminster Review. In 1857, she published Scenes of Clerical Life, the first of eight novels she would publish under the name of 'George Eliot', including The Mill on the Floss, Middlemarch, and Daniel Deronda.If you enjoyed Silas Marner, you might like Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, also available in Penguin Classics.'I think Silas Marner holds a higher place than any of the author's works. It is more nearly a masterpiece; it has more of that simple, rounded, consummate aspect ... which marks a classical work'Henry James

Silas Marner

This   carefully crafted ebook: "The Complete Novels: Adam Bede + The Lifted Veil +   The Mill on the Floss + Silas Marner + Romola + Brother Jacob + Felix Holt   the Radical + Middlemarch + Daniel Deronda" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
Table of Contents:
Adam Bede  (1859)
The Lifted Veil  (1859)
The Mill on the Floss (1860)
Silas Marner  (1861)
Romola  (1863)
Brother Jacob  (1864)
Felix Holt, the Radical (1866)
Middlemarch  (1871/72)
Daniel Deronda  (1876)
Mary Ann (Marian) Evans (1819 -    1880), better known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English   novelist, journalist and translator.    She was one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. Her novels,   largely set in provincial England, are well known for their realism and   psychological insight.

The Complete Novels: Adam Bede + The Lifted Veil + The Mill on the Floss + Silas Marner + Romola + Brother Jacob + Felix Holt the Radical + Middlemarch + Daniel Deronda

Complete and unabridged. One of BBC's 100 Novels That Shaped Our World. A masterpiece of candid observation, emotional insight and transcending humour, Middlemarch is a truly monumental novel. Endlessly appealing to modern readers, Middlemarch has been adapted as a BBC Radio 4 drama. Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure. This edition features an introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Jennifer Egan. Dorothea Brooke is a beautiful and idealistic young woman set on filling her life with good deeds. She pursues the pompous Edward Casuabon, convinced that he embodies these principles, and becomes trapped in an unhappy marriage. Then there is Tertius Lydgate, an anguished progressive whose determination to bring modern medicine to the provinces is muddied by unrequited love. They, and a multitude of other brilliantly drawn characters, reside in the town Middlemarch - the background to George Eliot's incomparable portrait of Victorian life.

Georges Eliot, de son vrai nom Mary Ann Evans, est avec Dickens et Thackeray le plus grand romancier anglais du XIXe siècle, le chef de file de cette lignée superbe de femmes écrivains qui illustrèrent alors la littérature d'outre-Manche : Jane Austen, Mrs. Gaskell, les sœurs Brontë. Politiquement "radicale", passionnée de problèmes philosophiques et sociaux, vivant en union libre avec un homme marié, George Eliot incarne aussi le premier refus de la condition "surnuméraire" de la femme et de tous les tabous de la société victorienne. Histoire d'un tisserand, d'un "cœur simple" qui meurt et renaît à l'amour, Silas Marner nous introduit au cœur le plus profond, savoureux et sensible, de l'Angleterre rustique, avec ses commères, ses auberges, ses libertins de village et ses illuminés.

This text is an updated edition of George Eliot's classic tale. The novel is a masterly evocation of diverse lives and changing fortunes in a provincial community.

Après avoir été trompé par son meilleur ami et accusé à tort de vol, le tisserand Silas Marner a quitté la ville et abandonné sa communauté religieuse pour s'établir dans la petite localité de Raveloe, dans la campagne anglaise. Objet de suspicion en raison de son talent et de sa foi, il sombre dans la routine d'un travail solitaire. La rumeur court qu'il serait guérisseur, activité qui ne lui coûte rien. Devenu misanthrope, Marner ne trouve de consolation que dans la contemplation nocturne de ses écus... Quinze ans après, une nouvelle affaire défraie la chronique de Raveloe. Le fils d'une riche famille, Dunsey Cass, jeune homme dissolu, fait du chantage à son frère aîné, Godfrey. Celui-ci, amoureux de la vertueuse Nancy, préfère payer la rançon plutôt que de voir révéler son mariage avec l'opiomane Molly Farren. Non content de cette mauvaise action, Dunsey se rend bientôt coupable du vol de l'or de Silas Marner. Mais Molly est décidée à faire éclater la vérité. Sur le chemin du bal du nouvel an chez les Cass, elle perd conscience. Et c'est sa fille, la petite Eppie, qui se rend jusqu'au cottage du vieux Marner pour quérir un remède...

Middlemarch

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