Silas Marner es un hombre desdichado que, tras un desengano amoroso y social, huye de su ciudad y se instala como tejedor en el pueblo de Raveloe, donde lleva una vida tranquila, aunque solitaria y desarraigada, dedicandose en cuerpo y alma a trabajar y acumular dinero. Un buen dia sus ahorros desaparecen y, poco despues, como si se tratara de un trueque del destino, aparece una nina abandonada a la que adopta. Los cuidados que le procura y su educacion cambiaran su vida.Esta historia, admirada por Henry James, Virginia Wolf y la propia reina Victoria, fue considerada por la critica como una...

Adam Bede, the first novel written by George Eliot (the pen name of Mary Ann Evans), was published in 1859. It was published pseudonymously, even though Evans was a well-published and highly respected scholar of her time. The novel has remained in print ever since, and is used in university studies of 19th-century English literature "the plot is founded on a story told to George Eliot by her aunt Elizabeth Evans, a Methodist preacher, and the original of Dinah Morris of the novel, of a confession of child-murder, made to her by a girl in prison." The story's plot follows four characters'...

Embittered by a false accusation, disappointed in friendship and love, the weaver Silas Marner retreats into a long twilight life alone with his loom. . . and his gold. Silas hoards a treasure that kills his spirit until fate steals it from him and replaces it with a golden-haired founding child.

Scenes of Clerical Life is the title under which George Eliot's first published fictional work, a collection of three short stories, was released in book form; it was the first of her works to be released under her famous pseudonym. The stories were first published in Blackwood's Magazine over the course of the year 1857, initially anonymously, before being released as a two-volume set by Blackwood and Sons in January 1858. The three stories are set during the last twenty years of the eighteenth century and the first half of the nineteenth century over a fifty year period. The stories take...

Excerpt from Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life
Since I can do no good because a woman, Reach constantly at something that is near it. - The M aid's Tragedy beaumont and fletcher.
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Maggie Tulliver is the central character of the book. The story begins when she is 9 years old, 13 years into her parents' marriage. Her relationship with her older brother Tom, and her romantic relationships with Philip Wakem (a hunchbacked, sensitive, and intellectual friend) and with Stephen Guest (a vivacious young socialite in St. Ogg's and assumed fiance of Maggie's cousin Lucy Deane) constitute the most significant narrative threads.
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Daniel Deronda contains two main strains of plot, united by the title character. The novel begins in late August 1865 with the meeting of Daniel Deronda and Gwendolen Harleth in the fictional town of Leubronn, Germany. Daniel finds himself attracted to, but wary of, the beautiful, stubborn, and selfish Gwendolen, whom he sees losing all her winnings in a game of roulette. The next day, Gwendolen receives a letter from her mother telling her that the family is financially ruined and asking...