ELIOT GEORGE

(P/B) MIDDLEMARCH
The most ambitious narrative 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 vividly brings to life the town's inhabitants - including the young idealist Dorothea Brooke, the dry scholar Casaubon, the young, passionate reformist doctor Lydgate, the flighty young beauty Rosamond and the old, secretive banker Bulstrode - as they move in counter...
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The mill on the floss (+CD)
Maggie and Tom are sister and brother. Maggie is passionate, impulsive, intelligent and often makes mistakes. Tom is practical, unimaginative, honest and hardworking. When their father is declared bankrupt, Tom works hard to pay his father's debts and restore the family name, while Maggie forms unsuitable friendships and is eventually ostracised by her family and local society. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) SCENES OF CLERICAL LIFE
"Many men write well and tell a story well, but few possess the art of giving individuality to their characters so happily and easily as you ..." Wrote the publisher John Blackwood in February 1857 to a shy and ambitious new author, whom he had not yet met, George Eliot. Shielded by this pseudonymn, Mary Ann Evans made her fictional d?but when Scenes of Clerical Life appeared in Blackwood's Magazine the same year. These are Eliot's earliest studies of what became enduring themes: the impact of religious controversy and social change in pr...
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(P/B) DANIEL DERONDA
"To say that Deronda was romantic would be to misrepresent him; but under his calm and somewhat self-repressed exterior there was a fervor". As Daniel Deronda opens, Gwendolen Harleth is poised at the roulette-table, prepared to throw away her family fortune. She is observed by Daniel Deronda, a young man groomed in the finest tradition of the English upper-classes. And while Gwendolen loses everything and becomes trapped in an oppressive marriage, Deronda's fortunes take a different turn. After a dramatic encounter with the young Jewish ...
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(H/B) SILAS MARNER
When Silas Marner is wrongly accused of crime and expelled from his community, he vows to turn his back upon the world. He moves to the village of Raveloe, where he remains an outsider and an object of suspicion until an extraordinary sequence of events, including the theft of his gold and the appearance of a tiny, golden-haired child in his cottage, transforms his life. Part beautifully realized rural portraiture and part fairy tale, the story of Marner's redemption and restoration to humanity has long been George Eliot's most beloved and...
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(P/B) THE LIFTED VEIL
'Why did she stand before me with the candle in her hand, with her cruel contemptuous eyes fixed on me, and the glittering serpent, like a familiar demon, on her breast?' In this dark novella of Victorian horror, George Eliot explores clairvoyance, fate and the possibility of life after death. (From the publisher)...
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(H/B) MIDDLEMARCH
MIDDLEMARCH: A STUDY OF PROVINCIAL LIFE, published 1871-2, is set in the imaginary county of Loamshire during the years of unrest preceding the 1832 Reform Bill. With its complex plot, broad canvas and huge cast of characters, it has long been recognized as one of the few truly classic English novels. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) SILAS MARNER
Wrongly accused of theft and exiled from a religious community many years before, the embittered weaver Silas Marner lives alone in Raveloe, living only for work and his precious hoard of money. But when his money is stolen and an orphaned child finds her way into his house, Silas is given the chance to transform his life. His fate, and that of the little girl he adopts, is entwined with Godfrey Cass, son of the village Squire, who, like Silas, is trapped by his past. Silas Marner, George Eliot's favourite of her novels, combines humour, r...
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(P/B) ROMOLA
"There is no book of mine about which I more thoroughly feel that I swear by every sentence as having been written with my best blood". Wrote George Eliot of Romola, the novel which argues her most profound and utopian vision of the position of women. Romola's patient subservience to her scholar-father Bardo, her unhappy marriage to supple and treacherous Tito, and her passionate intellectual and spiritual awakening take place in Renaissance Florence which, like Victorian Britain, was caught up in a period of ferment and transition. Romol...
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(H/B) THE MILL ON THE FLOSS
In The Mill on the Floss, George Eliot re-creates her own childhood through the story of the wild, gifted Maggie Tulliver and her spoiled, selfish brother. Though tragic in its outcome, this tenderly comic novel combines vivid vignettes of family life with a magnificent portrait of the heroine and an acute critique of Victorian sexual politics. Eliot had no peer when it came to finding the drama at the heart of normal lives lived in tandem with the gigantic rhythms of nature itself, and in The Mill on the Floss she shows us once again how ...
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(H/B) SILAS MARNER
George Eliots own favourite novel centres on Silas Marner, the linen weaver of Raveloe, a village on the brink of industrialization. He was once a respected member of a narrow congregation, but the events that took place during one of his cataleptic fits led to the loss of everything that he valued. Now he lives a withdrawn half-life and is an object of suspicion to his new neighbours; he exists only for his work and his golden guineas. But when his precious money is stolen and, shortly after, seemingly and mysteriously replaced by the chi...
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(P/B) THE MILL ON THE FLOSS
'If life had no love in it, what else was there for Maggie?' Brought up at Dorlcote Mill, Maggie Tulliver worships her brother Tom and is desperate to win the approval of her parents, but her passionate, wayward nature and her fierce intelligence bring her into constant conflict with her family. As she reaches adulthood, the clash between their expectations and her desires is painfully played out as she finds herself torn between her relationships with three very different men: her proud and stubborn brother, a close friend who is also the...
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(P/B) SILAS MARNER
Gentle linen weaver Silas Marner is wrongly accused of a heinous theft, and he exiles himself from the world-until he finds redemption and spiritual rebirth through his unselfish love for an abandoned child who mysteriously appears one day at his isolated cottage. Somber, yet hopeful, Eliot's realistic depiction of an irretrievable past, tempered with the magical elements of myth and fairy tale, remains timeless in its understanding of human nature and is beloved by every generation. (From the publisher)...
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(H/B) MIDDLEMARCH
Middlemarch is a monumental novel, and as much a delight to read today as it has ever been. George Eliot's immortal creations, the saintly and beautiful Dorothea Brooke, the dry-as-dust Edward Casaubon and the anguished progressive Tertius Lydgate, shine forth as some of the most exquisitely drawn characters in all of English literature. Eliot was at first criticised for the 'inartistic' realism of her story, which she subtitled 'A Study of Provincial Life' as if to claim it as a scholarly contribution to the new science of sociology. But ...
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(P/B) FELIX HOLT: THE RADICAL
"If a woman really believes herself to be a lower kind of being, she should place herself in subjection... If not, let her show her power of choosing something better." This is the challenge thrown down to Esther Lyon, George Eliot's heroine in Felix Holt: The Radical (1866). Esther's 'airs and graces', her proud and sensitive dreams of marrying into a life of refinement are transformed in the course of the novel, as she makes her choice between Harold Transome, who has returned to Treby Magna to claim his inheritance, Transome Court, and ...
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Στις "Κακοτυχίες του Αιδεσιμότατου Έιμος Μπάρτον", ο εφημέριος, η σύζυγός του και μια αδέκαρη κόμισσα αμφίβολης ηθικής σχηματίζουν ένα κλασικό ερωτικό τρίγωνο στο βουκολικό Γουοργουικσάιρ. Η Έλιοτ μας παρουσιάζει τον αιδεσιμότατο Μπάρτον ως "έναν άνθρωπο που οι αρετές του δεν ήταν ηρωικές και δεν φώλιαζε κάποιο κρυφό αμάρτημα στο στήθος του, που δεν τον τύλιγε το παραμικρό μυστήριο, αλλά ήταν πρόδηλα και καταφανώς πεζός". Ωστόσο, υπάρχει ένα μυστήριο γύρω από τον Έιμος Μπάρτον. Ποια είναι η αδέκαρη αριστοκράτισσα που φιλοξένησε στο σπίτι τ...
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(P/B) DANIEL DERONDA

(P/B) THE MILL ON THE FLOSS
Brought up at Dorlcote Mill, Maggie Tulliver worships her brother Tom and is desperate to win the approval of her parents, but her passionate, wayward nature and her fierce intelligence bring her into constant conflict with her family. As she reaches adulthood, the clash between their expectations and her desires is painfully played out as she finds herself torn between her relationships with three very different men: her proud and stubborn brother, a close friend who is also the son of her family’s worst enemy, and a charismatic but dange...
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(H/B) MIDDLEMARCH / SILAS MARNER / AMOS BARTON