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....

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

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

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....

At the center of Middlemarch is Dorothea Brooke, a thoughtful and idealistic young woman determined to make a difference with her life....

Middlemarch is a recognized masterpiece that explores the complex social world of 19th century England....

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

Gwendolen Harleth gambles her happiness when she marries a sadistic aristocrat for his money. Beautiful, neurotic, and self-centered, Gwendolen is trapped in a destructive relationship....

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....

George Eliot's first full-length novel is the moving, realistic portrait of three people troubled by unwise love....

Considered one of the great English novels, George Eliot's Middlemarch, A Study of Provincial Life follows myriad characters and their lives in the eponymous town, Middlemarch, in the 1800s.

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....

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

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

Set in the fictitious Midlands town of Middlemarch and subtitled "A Study of Provincial Life", the novel creates a concept of life and society confronting the scepticism that was taking over the age....

A vintage collection of some of the greatest short stories ever written....

Maggie Tulliver has two lovers: Philip Wakem, son of her father’s enemy, and Stephen Guest, already promised to her cousin....

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....

Told from the point of view of a young, egocentric, and morbid clairvoyant man, Latimer, this is a dark fantasy portrait of an artist whose visionary powers merely blight his life....