Daniel Deronda
George Eliot, Graham Handley (ed.), and K. M. Newton (ed.)
She felt herself standing at the game of life with many eyes upon her, daring everything to win much.’ Gwendolen Harleth gambles her happiness when she marries a sadistic aristocrat for his ...
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The Lifted Veil, and Brother Jacob
George Eliot and Helen Small (ed.)
‘She had believed that my wild poet's passion for her would make me her slave; and that, being her slave, I should execute her will in all things.’ The Lifted Veil was first published in ...
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Middlemarch (3 ed.)
George Eliot, David Carroll (ed.), and David Russell
‘The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts.’ The greatest ‘state of the nation’ novel in English, Middlemarch addresses ordinary life at a moment of great social ...
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The Mill on the Floss (3 ed.)
George Eliot, Gordon S. Haight (ed.), and Juliette Atkinson
Was her life to be always like this? - always bringing some new source of inward strife?' When the miller Mr Tulliver becomes entangled in lawsuits, he sets off a chain of events that will ...
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Scenes of Clerical Life (2 ed.)
George Eliot, Thomas A. Noble (ed.), and Josie Billington
The only true knowledge of our fellow-man is that which enables us to feel with him.' George Eliot's first published work consisted of three short novellas: 'The Sad Fortunes of the ...
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Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe (2 ed.)
George Eliot and Juliette Atkinson (ed.)
‘Gold! – his own gold – brought back to him as mysteriously as it had been taken away!’ Falsely accused of theft, Silas Marner is cut off from his community but finds refuge in the village ...
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