Go not down, good Spirit for the changes are great and the speech of Florentines would sound as a riddle in your ears. Or, if you go, mingle with no politicians on the marmi, or elsewhere; ask no questions about trade in the Calimara; confuse yourself with no inquiries into scholarship, official or monastic. Only look at the sunlight and shadows on the grand walls that were built solidly, and have endured in their grandeur; look at the faces of the little children, making another sunlight amid the shadows of age; look, if you will, into the churches, and hear the same chants, see the same...
Go not down, good Spirit for the changes are great and the speech of Florentines would sound as a riddle in your ears. Or, if you go, mingle with no ...
It was fifteen years since Silas Marner had first come to Raveloe; he was then simply a pallid young man, with prominent short-sighted brown eyes, whose appearance would have had nothing strange for people of average culture and experience, but for the villagers near whom he had come to settle it had mysterious peculiarities which corresponded with the exceptional nature of his occupation, and his advent from an unknown region called -North'ard-.
It was fifteen years since Silas Marner had first come to Raveloe; he was then simply a pallid young man, with prominent short-sighted brown eyes, who...
George Eliot's classic tale of life in a provincial town delves deep into the lives of the people of silk-manufacturing town Middlemarch. Eliot examines intricacies of life and social structure, and of the human struggles of the town's people with an intelligence and insight that has rarely been matched. One of the most popular, highly regarded and influential novels of all time, Middlemarch has been adapted for radio, stage and screen on many occasions. It remains a constant fixture high on lists of the greatest novels.
George Eliot's classic tale of life in a provincial town delves deep into the lives of the people of silk-manufacturing town Middlemarch. Eliot examin...
Forced to leave his home in Lantern Yard after being falsely accused of theft, Silas Marner moves to the village of Raveloe where he earns a meagre living as a weaver. Marner's solitary, isolated existence is challenged when a young child is brought into his life. Her background will bring challenges to Marner but she will also bring love and hope into his life. George Eliot's classic tale examines themes of community, of relationships, the role of the gentry and religion and of morality. The novel has been adapted for stage and screen many times.
Forced to leave his home in Lantern Yard after being falsely accused of theft, Silas Marner moves to the village of Raveloe where he earns a meagre li...
George Eliot's classic novel covers the span of more than a decade of the lives of brother and sister Tom and Maggie Tulliver as they grow up at Doricote Mill on the River Floss. Maggie's search for love and acceptance and the conflicts which arise from this quest shape the lives of the siblings. One of the most popular, highly regarded and influential novels of all time, The Mill on the Floss has been adapted for radio, stage and screen on many occasions. It remains a constant fixture on lists of the greatest novels.
George Eliot's classic novel covers the span of more than a decade of the lives of brother and sister Tom and Maggie Tulliver as they grow up at Doric...
