Product Description: George Eliot was a prominent English author during the Victorian Era. Born Mary Ann Evans, she chose to change her name to George Eliot so that her works would gain more attention. Eliot would go on to write many classics such as The Mill on the Floss, Silar Marner, Middlemarch, and Daniel Deronda...read more

Product Description: George Eliot was a prominent English author during the Victorian Era. Born Mary Ann Evans, she chose to change her name to George Eliot so that her works would gain more attention. Eliot would go on to write many classics such as The Mill on the Floss, Silar Marner, Middlemarch, and Daniel Deronda...read more

Product Description: George Eliot was a prominent English author during the Victorian Era. Born Mary Ann Evans, she chose to change her name to George Eliot so that her works would gain more attention. Eliot would go on to write many classics such as The Mill on the Floss, Silar Marner, Middlemarch, and Daniel Deronda...read more

Product Description: George Eliot was a prominent English author during the Victorian Era. Born Mary Ann Evans, she chose to change her name to George Eliot so that her works would gain more attention. Eliot would go on to write many classics such as The Mill on the Floss, Silar Marner, Middlemarch, and Daniel Deronda...read more

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Adam Bede, the first novel written by George Eliot (the pen name of Mary Ann Evans), was published in 1859. Adam Bede 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... Carpenter Adam Bede is in love with the beautiful Hetty Sorrel, but unknown to him, he has a rival, in the local squire’s son Arthur Donnithorne. Hetty is soon attracted by Arthur’s seductive charm and they begin to meet in secret. The relationship is to have tragic consequences that reach far beyond the couple themselves, touching not just Adam Bede, but many others, not least, pious Methodist Preacher Dinah Morris. A tale of seduction, betrayal, love and deception, the plot of Adam Bede has the quality of an English folk song. Within the setting of Hayslope, a small, rural community, Eliot brilliantly creates a sense of earthy reality, making the landscape itself as vital a presence in the novel as that of her characters themselves.. According to The Oxford Companion to English Literature (1967),"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." Adam Bede story's plot follows four characters' rural lives in the fictional community of Hayslope—a rural, pastoral and close-knit community in 1799. Adam Bede novel revolves around a love "rectangle" among beautiful but self-absorbed Hetty Sorrel; Captain Arthur Donnithorne, the young squire who seduces her; Adam Bede, her unacknowledged suitor; and Dinah Morris, Hetty's cousin, a fervent, virtuous and beautiful Methodist lay preacher. (The real village where Adam Bede was set is Ellastone[citation needed]on the Staffordshire / Derbyshire border, a few miles from Uttoxeter and Ashbourne, and near to Alton Towers. Eliot's father lived in the village as a carpenter in a substantial house now known as Adam Bede's Cottage). Adam Bede by the author George Elliot is a great novel highly recommended to read . Subject:george eliot penguin the collection elliot bede

Product Description: George Eliot was a prominent English author during the Victorian Era. Born Mary Ann Evans, she chose to change her name to George Eliot so that her works would gain more attention. Eliot would go on to write many classics such as The Mill on the Floss, Silar Marner, Middlemarch, and Daniel Deronda...read more

Product Description: George Eliot was a prominent English author during the Victorian Era. Born Mary Ann Evans, she chose to change her name to George Eliot so that her works would gain more attention. Eliot would go on to write many classics such as The Mill on the Floss, Silar Marner, Middlemarch, and Daniel Deronda...read more

Product Description: George Eliot was a prominent English author during the Victorian Era. Born Mary Ann Evans, she chose to change her name to George Eliot so that her works would gain more attention. Eliot would go on to write many classics such as The Mill on the Floss, Silar Marner, Middlemarch, and Daniel Deronda...read more

"What I want, you know," said Mr. Tulliver of Dorlcote Mill—"what I want is to give Tom a good eddication. That was what I was thinking of when I gave notice for him to leave th' academy at Lady Day. I meant to put him to a downright good school at Midsummer.

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An excerpt of a review from The Saturday Review: A romantic story in ten-syllable couplets is the last thing one would have expected George Eliot to write, but she has written it with beauty and facility; and if the condensed gravity of her habitual manner is not altogether forgotten, we find a little composure by no means amiss in the face of a modern school of garrulous and unbridled verse. A love-song which occurs in the poem is perhaps the passage which departs most from George Eliot's usual type. An extract from this will show that she need not fear meeting Mr. Morris on his own ground:— O Love, who so didst choose me for thine own, Taking this little isle to thy great sway, See now, it is the honour of thy throne That what thou gavest perish not away, Nor leave some sweet remembrance to atone By life that will be for the brief life none: Hear, ere the shroud o'er these frail limbs be thrown— Since every king is vassal unto thee. My heart's lord needs must listen loyally— O tell him I am waiting for my Death! Tell him, for that he hath such royal power, 'Twere hard for him to think how small a thing. How slight a sign, would make a wealthy dower For one like me, the bride of that pale king Whose bed is mine at some swift-nearing hour. Go to my lord, and to his memory bring That happy birthday of my sorrowing When his large glance made meaner gazers glad, Entering the bannered lists: 'twas then I had The wound that laid me in the arms of Death. * * * * * * "How Lisa Loved the King," is suggested by the bright pages of Boccaccio, has also an adventitious interest, as the last of her contributions that appeared in Blackwood. Though not published till 1869, it was written six years before, and is probably the earliest of her recorded poetical productions, though she wrote in verse at a much earlier period.

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Records the nineteenth-century English novelist's ideas on the political process in this novel about a radical, Felix Holt

Men can do nothing without the make-believe of a beginning. Even science, the strict measurer, is obliged to start with a make-believe unit, and must fix on a point in the stars' unceasing journey when his sidereal clock shall pretend that time is at Nought. His less accurate grandmother Poetry has always been understood to start in the middle; but on reflection it appears that her proceeding is not very different from his; since Science, too, reckons backward as well as forward, divides his unit into billions, and with his clock-finger at Nought really sets off in medias res. No retrospect will take us to the true beginning; and whether our prologue be in heaven or on earth, it is but a fraction of that all-presupposing fact with which our story sets out.

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Product Description: George Eliot's The Lifted Veil was first published in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine in 1859 and has now become one of the author's most widely read and critically discussed stories. Told from the point of view of a young, egocentric, and morbid clairvoyant man, Latimer, it is a dark fantasy portrait of an artist whose visionary powers merely blight his life...read more

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