Mary Anne Evans (1819 - 1880), known by her pen name George Eliot, is the Victorian author of seven novels, most of them set in provincial England and known for their realism and psychological insight. Her plots are immaculate, every page advances the story, the characters are utterly believable and she continues to surprise the reader throughout the novels.
This volume contains the first four novels:
Adam Bede, 1859; The Mill on the Floss, 1860; Silas Marner, 1861; Romola, 1863.
Mary Anne Evans (1819 - 1880), known by her pen name George Eliot, is the Victorian author of seven novels, most of them set in provincial England and...
Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life is a novel by George Eliot, the pen name of Mary Anne Evans, later Marian Evans. It is her seventh novel, begun in 1869 and then put aside during the final illness of Thornton Lewes, the son of her companion George Henry Lewes. During the following year Eliot resumed work, fusing together several stories into a coherent whole, and during 1871-72 the novel appeared in serial form. The first one-volume edition was published in 1874, and attracted large sales. Subtitled "A Study of Provincial Life," the novel is set in the fictitious Midlands town of...
Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life is a novel by George Eliot, the pen name of Mary Anne Evans, later Marian Evans. It is her seventh novel, begu...
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 cease to offer the slightest excitement? Or how, at the tender age when a confectioner seems to him a very prince whom all the world...
Among the many fatalities attending the bloom of young desire, that of blindly taking to the confectionery line has not, perhaps, been sufficiently co...
The classic book, Silas Marner by George Eliot There's a reason why Silas Marner is one of the best books of all time. If you haven't read this classic, then you'd better pick up a copy of Silas Marner by George Eliot today
The classic book, Silas Marner by George Eliot There's a reason why Silas Marner is one of the best books of all time. If you haven't read this class...
Mary Anne Evans (1819-1880) used the pen name George Eliot to be taken seriously, and she was. One of the leading writers of the Victorian, Eliot is best known for The Mill on the Floss, Silas Marner, and Middlemarch, written with realism and psychological insight.
Mary Anne Evans (1819-1880) used the pen name George Eliot to be taken seriously, and she was. One of the leading writers of the Victorian, Eliot is b...
