George Eliot

George Eliot's most ambitious novel is a masterly evocation of diverse lives and changing fortunes in a provincial community....

Dorothea Brooke is an ardent idealist who represses her vivacity and intelligence for the cold, theological pedant Casaubon....

As Maggie Tulliver approaches maturity she enters into conflict with family and community over her desire for self-fulfillment....

One of the masterpieces of English fiction, Daniel Deronda tells the intertwined stories of two characters as they each come to discover the truth of their natures....

The Ultimate Classics Collection: Volume One is a continent-hopping, century-spanning collection of 15 essential classic novels by British, American, and Russian authors, read by a cast of incredible narrators including Stephen Fry, Jason Isaacs, Adjoa Andoh, David Rintoul, and many more.

Meeting by chance at a gambling hall in Europe, the separate lives of Daniel Deronda and Gwendolen Harleth are immediately intertwined....

The is the heart-rending tale of carpenter Adam Bede's love for pretty, superficial Hetty Sorrel....

Middlemarch, George Eliot’s epic realist masterwork, encapsulates Victorian society on the edge of radical political, social, and industrial change. Originally published in eight volumes, it is regarded today as one of the greatest English novels of all time....

In the quiet world of rural English clergy, lives are full of challenges, conflicts, desires and expectations.

Relinquishing thoughts of a materially rewarding life, the respectably educated Felix Holt returns to his native village in North Loamshire and becomes an artisan....

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....

George Eliot's first full-length novel Adam Bede is a profound rendering of 19th century English pastoral life....

Middlemarch is a recognized masterpiece that explores the complex social world of 19th century England. It is concerned with the lives of several ordinary people, albeit ones with high social standing. The novel explores the very fabric of Victorian society in the 1800s, showing how various...

We are compelled to follow the humble and mysterious figure of the linen weaver Silas Marner, on his journey from solitude and exile to the warmth and joy of family life....

The Mill on the Floss is one of the great works of English literature. It is perhaps the most autobiographical of all Eliot's novels....

George Eliot’s sweeping story of a manufacturing town and its inhabitants is widely acknowledged to be her masterpiece and is considered to be one of the greatest English novels.

For 15 years the weaver Silas Marner has plied his loom near the village of Raveloe....

The Sad Fortunes of the Rev. Amos Barton, through vignettes of his life, portrays a character who is hard to like and easy to ridicule....

With an introduction and notes by Doreen Roberts, University of Kent at Canterbury "Examine your words well, and you will find that even when you have no motive to be false, it is a very hard thing to say the exact truth, even about your immediate feelings...." Adam Bede (1859), George Eliot's...

Mary Ann Evans, known by her pen name George Eliot, was one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. Her novels are known for their realism and psychological insight. Four of them are included in this volume....