The novel details the lives of Tom and Maggie Tulliver, a brother and sister growing up on the River Floss near the village of St. Ogg's in the United Kingdom. The book is fictional autobiography in part, reflecting the disgrace that George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) herself had while in a lengthy relationship with a married man.

Silas Marner is a member of a small Calvinist congregation in Lantern Yard, a slum street in an unnamed city in Northern England. He is falsely accused of stealing the congregation's funds. Two clues are given against him: a pocket-knife and the discovery of the bag formerly containing the money in his own house.

Classic from the year 2008 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, language: English, abstract: Chapter I 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 pork and yeast dumplings, to know that there is satiety for the human stomach even in a paradise of glass jars full of sugared almonds and pink lozenges, and that the tedium of life can reach a pitch where plum-buns at discretion...

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Drama

Adapted by Geoffrey Beevers from the novel by George Eliot

Characters: 15 males, 8 females (with doubling)

Scenery: Bare stage with props

Eliot's story of the reclusive miser who is transformed by a young girl is one of the most moving and memorable in Victorian literature. This adaptation captures the novel's thirty year sweep in a series of telling scenes, each displaying Eliot's gifts for humor, insight and simple beauty. The large cast can be trimmed to seven multiple roles and it is possible to keep costumes and props to a minimum.

A literary landmark in its groundbreaking approach, as well as a priceless document of its age One of the most ambitious narratives 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's sophisticated and acute characterization gives rich expression to every nuance of feeling, and vividly brings to life the town's inhabitants--including the young idealist Dorothea Brooke, the dry scholar Casaubon, the young, passionate reformist doctor...

Special Large Print edition of George Eliots two short novels in one volume!

This dramatic novel from Eliot voices many of her deepest reservations about religion and avarice. It tells the story of Silas Marner, a Calvinist weaver who is framed as a thief by his best friend and finds redemption in his care for Eppie, a small child. While Silas Manner may have a deceptively happy ending, it remains a powerful Victorian critique of organized religion and industrialization.

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1876 edition. Excerpt: ... and ehose not to disturb it by remark. Mi rah sat opposite in her former attitude, her hands elasped on her lap, her ankles erossed, her eyes at first traveling slowly over the objeets around her, but finally resting with a sort of plaeid reverenee on Mrs. Meyriek. At length she began to speak softly. "I remember my mother's faee better than any thing; yet I was not seven when...