George Eliot Books

Cranford is Elizabeth Gaskell's gently comic picture of life and manners in an English country village during the 1830s. It describes the small adventures in the lives of two middle-aged sisters in reduced circumstances, Matilda and Deborah Jenkyns, who do their best to maintain their standards of propriety, decency, and kindness. At the center of the novel is Miss Matty, whose warm heart and tender ways compel affection and regard from everyone around her. Also revealed are the foibles and attributes of the pompous Mrs. Jamieson and her awesome butler, the genial Captain Brown, the loyal housemaid Martha, and others. Using an intimate, gossipy voice that never turns sentimental, Gaskell skillfully conveys the old-fashioned habits, subtle class distinctions, and genteel poverty of the townspeople. Cranford is one of the author's best-loved works.

The complete surviving journals of a renowned Victorian novelist provide a unique glimpse into the author's thoughts and experiences. This first publication of previously unpublished material offers readers an intimate understanding of the writer's creative process, personal reflections, and the societal context of the time. The journals reveal the complexities of the author's life, making this collection a valuable addition for scholars and fans alike.

3 masterpieces from one of the Victorian era's most brilliant and celebrated feminist novelists--George Eliot, ne Mary Ann Evans. Middlemarch, her most well-known work, paints a rich and varied portrait of English society. Eliot focuses especially on the idealistic Dorothea Brooke, a woman who, lacking a creative outlet of her own, dedicates herself to her husband's legacy. In Silas Marner, a tale filled with mystery and emotion, an embittered man retreats from the outside world, thinking only of work and money. Then his wealth is stolen from him-and a young foundling comes into his life and changes everything. Also included: the short story Amos Barton, which heralded Eliot's arrival as a writer when it was published in Blackwood's magazine in 1857.

Arthur's seduction of an innocent, young country girl results in remorse, suffering, and regret

The works collected in this volume provide an illuminating introduction to George Eliot's incisive views on religion, art and science, and the nature and purpose of fiction. Essays such as 'Evangelical Teaching' show her rejecting her earlier religious beliefs, while 'Woman in France' questions conventional ideas about female virtues and marriage, and 'Notes on Form in Art' sets out theories of idealism and realism that she developed further in Middlemarch and Daniel Deronda. It also includes selections from Eliot's translations of works by Strauss and Feuerbach that challenged many ideas about Christianity; excerpts from her poems; and reviews of writers such as Wollstonecraft, Goethe and Browning. Wonderfully rich in imagery and observations, these pieces reveal the intellectual development of this most challenging and rewarding of writers.

In Middlemarch, in the heart of England, Dorothea wants to change the world and Dr Lydgate hopes to make great scientific discoveries. But after disastrous marriages, they both lose control of their lives.Can they ever achieve their dreams?Middlemarch is generally considered to be one of the greatest novels in the English language.

A novel based on the 20th Century Fox motion picture starring Jodie Foster, Liam Neeson and Natasha Richardson. When a child is found living alone in the woods, she struggles to protect her sense of self while a lawyer and a social worker battle to determine how she will be allowed to live her future.

Although the shortest of George Eliot's novels, Silas Marner is one of her most admired and loved works. It tells the sad story of the unjustly exiled Silas Marner - a handloom linen weaver of Raveloe in the agricultural heartland of England - and how he is restored to life by the unlikely means of the orphan child Eppie. Silas Marner is a tender and moving tale of sin and repentance set in a vanished rural world and holds the reader's attention until the last page as Eppie's bonds of affection for Silas are put to the test.

The hero, Daniel Deronda, adopted son of an English aristocrat, discovers his Jewish heritage and with that his heritage.

The Sad Fortunes of the Rev. Amos Barton is the tale of a poor clergyman with a loving wife and too many children. Not until personal tragedy strikes does Amos recognize his own frailties, while his critical parishioners learn to appreciate him too late.