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One of the most famous novelists in the English literary canon, the
likes of Middlemarch and Silas Marner are household names, but
Eliot's essays are often overlooked. This collection brings
together some of her most important essays and seeks to celebrate
her non-fiction writing. In 'Silly Novels by Lady Novelists' Eliot
states a desire - some few years before her best-known works - to
turn her hand to novel-writing, and decries the trivial nature of
contemporary writers, setting out a manifesto for good writing. In
'Woman in France' she considers the history of women's writing, and
the complications women face in order to write - something Eliot
knew much about herself, adopting a male name to publish the work
she did not publish anonymously. Taken together, this collection
gives a rare and valuable insight into the author's writing, and
shines a light on her pioneering subtle form of feminism.
Introduction and Notes by Doreen Roberts, Rutherford College,
University of Kent at Canterbury. Middlemarch is a complex tale of
idealism, disillusion, profligacy, loyalty and frustrated love.
This penetrating analysis of the life of an English provincial town
during the time of social unrest prior to the Reform Bill of 1832
is told through the lives of Dorothea Brooke and Dr Tertius Lydgate
and includes a host of other paradigm characters who illuminate the
condition of English life in the mid-nineteenth century. Henry
James described Middlemarch as a 'treasurehouse of detail' while
Virginia Woolf famously endorsed George Eliot's masterpiece as 'one
of the few English novels written for grown-up people.
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved,
essential classics. 'Our consciousness rarely registers the
beginning of a growth within us any more than without us: there
have been many circulations of the sap before we detect the
smallest sign of the bud.' Set in the agricultural town of Raveloe
in the English countryside, Silas Marner is a tragic figure. Exiled
from a religious community because of a wrongful accusation of
theft, he works from day to day as a weaver, saving his money and
living a lonely life as a recluse. It is only when his money is
stolen and a small orphan girl, Eppie appears in his life that
Silas's fortunes begin to change and he truly begins to learn what
it means to regain his faith in life.
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved,
essential classics. 'People glorify all sorts of bravery except the
bravery they might show on behalf of their nearest neighbours'
Rejecting the conventional narratives of the time, Middlemarch
shows a realistic portrayal of Victorian village life. Peopling
this ground-breaking work are Tertius Lydgate, a talented yet naive
young doctor; Dorothea Brooke, stuck in a loveless marriage; and
the religious hypocrite Bulstrode, hiding shocking crimes from his
past. An intricate story weaving together many lives, Middlemarch
is described as one of the best-loved novels of all time and
heralded as 'one of the few English novels written for grown-up
people' by Virginia Woolf. It is a richly nuanced drama that is a
quintessential English classic.
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/ English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh;
'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
change, in the years leading to the Reform Act of 1832. Through her
portrait of a Midlands town, George Eliot addresses gender
relations and class, self-knowledge and self-delusion, community
and individualism. Eliot follows the fortunes of the town's central
characters as they find, lose, and rediscover ideals and vocations
in the world. Through its psychologically rich portraits, the novel
contains some of the great characters of literature, including the
idealistic but naive Dorothea Brooke, beautiful and egotistical
Rosamund Vincy, the dry scholar Edward Casaubon, the wise and
grounded Mary Garth, and the brilliant but proud Dr Lydgate. In its
whole view of a society, the novel offers enduring insight into the
pains and pleasures of life with others, and explores nearly every
subject of concern to modern life:. art, religion, science,
politics, self, society, and, above all, human relationships. This
edition uses the definitive Clarendon text.
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Spinoza's Ethics (Paperback)
Benedictus De Spinoza; Translated by George Eliot; Edited by Clare Carlisle
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An authoritative edition of George Eliot's elegant translation of
Spinoza's greatest philosophical work In 1856, Marian Evans
completed her translation of Benedict de Spinoza's Ethics while
living in Berlin with the philosopher and critic George Henry
Lewes. This would have become the first edition of Spinoza's
controversial masterpiece in English, but the translation remained
unpublished because of a disagreement between Lewes and the
publisher. Later that year, Evans turned to fiction writing, and by
1859 she had published her first novel under the pseudonym George
Eliot. This splendid edition makes Eliot's translation of the
Ethics available to today's readers while also tracing Eliot's deep
engagement with Spinoza both before and after she wrote the novels
that established her as one of English literature's greatest
writers. Clare Carlisle's introduction places the Ethics in its
seventeenth-century context and explains its key philosophical
claims. She discusses George Eliot's intellectual formation, her
interest in Spinoza, the circumstances of her translation of the
Ethics, and the influence of Spinoza's ideas on her literary work.
Carlisle shows how Eliot drew on Spinoza's radical insights on
religion, ethics, and human emotions, and brings to light
surprising affinities between Spinoza's austere philosophy and the
rich fictional worlds of Eliot's novels. This authoritative edition
demonstrates why George Eliot's translation remains one of the most
compelling and philosophically astute renderings of Spinoza's Latin
text. It includes notes that indicate Eliot's amendments to her
manuscript and that discuss her translation decisions alongside
more recent English editions.
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Silas Marner (Paperback)
George Eliot; Illustrated by Sarah Wimperis; Edited by Gill Tavner
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This novel was George Eliot's favourite. It concerns a bitter
weaver who takes on a young orphan girl and gradually transforms
his own life and that of the girl. The novel combines humour, rich
symbolism and pointed social criticism to create an unsentimental
portrait of rural English life.
One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World' The Penguin
English Library Edition of Middlemarch by George Eliot 'She did not
know then that it was Love who had come to her briefly as in a
dream before awaking, with the hues of morning on his wings - that
it was Love to whom she was sobbing her farewell as his image was
banished by the blameless rigour of irresistible day' George
Eliot's most ambitious novel is a masterly evocation of diverse
lives and changing fortunes in a provincial community. Peopling its
landscape are Dorothea Brooke, a young idealist whose search for
intellectual fulfillment leads her into a disastrous marriage to
the pedantic scholar Casaubon; the charming but tactless Dr
Lydgate, whose marriage to the spendthrift beauty Rosamund and
pioneering medical methods threaten to undermine his career; and
the religious hypocrite Bulstrode, hiding scandalous crimes from
his past. As their stories interweave, George Eliot creates a
richly nuanced and moving drama, hailed by Virginia Woolf as 'one
of the few English novels written for adult people'. The Penguin
English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from
the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning
of the First World War.
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Middlemarch (Paperback)
George Eliot, Francine Prose
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In her third novel, reissued here in its first edition of 1861,
George Eliot (1819-80) charts the life of the cataleptic, miserly
weaver Silas Marner. Arriving in insular Raveloe after a wrongful
expulsion from his Calvinist community in the north, Silas is a
foreign and outcast figure, left alone to accumulate a useless
fortune through his loom in the dawn of the new industrial age. His
unhappy life is rendered unrecognisable when his fortune is stolen
and he adopts a child. Eliot's first two novels, Adam Bede and Mill
on the Floss, had dealt with tragedy and the injustices faced by
fallen women. With its happy ending and suffusion of fairy-tale
elements, Silas Marner marks a turning point in her career.
Alongside this development, however, the novel continues to raise
Eliot's characteristic questions about social inequalities, the
effects of extreme religion, and the worth of human experience.
In her third novel, reissued here in its first edition of 1861,
George Eliot (1819-80) charts the life of the cataleptic, miserly
weaver Silas Marner. Arriving in insular Raveloe after a wrongful
expulsion from his Calvinist community in the north, Silas is a
foreign and outcast figure, left alone to accumulate a useless
fortune through his loom in the dawn of the new industrial age. His
unhappy life is rendered unrecognisable when his fortune is stolen
and he adopts a child. Eliot's first two novels, Adam Bede and Mill
on the Floss, had dealt with tragedy and the injustices faced by
fallen women. With its happy ending and suffusion of fairy-tale
elements, Silas Marner marks a turning point in her career.
Alongside this development, however, the novel continues to raise
Eliot's characteristic questions about social inequalities, the
effects of extreme religion, and the worth of human experience.
Ludwig Feuerbach (1804-72), the German philosopher and a founding
member of the Young Hegelians, a group of radical thinkers
influenced by G. W. F. Hegel (1770-1831), was an outspoken critic
of religion, and the 1841 publication of this work established his
reputation. In the first part of the book he examines what he calls
the 'anthropological essence' of religion, and in the second he
looks at its 'false or theological essence', arguing that the idea
of God is a manifestation of human consciousness. These ideas
provoked strong reactions in Germany, and soon other European
intellectuals wanted to read Feuerbach's book. The 1843 second
edition was translated by Marian Evans (1819-80) - who would become
better known by her pen name of George Eliot - and published in
Britain in 1854. Evans was influenced by Feuerbach's work, and many
of his humanist ideas about religion are reflected in her novels.
150th ANNIVERSARY GIFT EDITION WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ZADIE SMITH
Discover one of the most admired, best loved and influential novels
in the history of English literature. 'If we had a keen vision and
feeling of all ordinary human life...' Dorothea is bright,
beautiful and rebellious. Lydgate is the ambitious new doctor in
town. Both of them long to make a positive difference in the world.
But their stories do not proceed as expected and both they, and the
other inhabitants of Middlemarch, must struggle to reconcile
themselves to their fates and find their places in the world.
Middlemarch contains all of life: the rich and the poor, the
conventional and the radical, literature and science, politics and
romance, but above all it gives us a vision of what lies within the
human heart. VINTAGE CLASSICS 150th ANNIVERSARY GIFT EDITION George
Eliot's novel was first published in eight instalments, in an
innovative new style of serialisation. The earliest part, entitled
MIDDLEMARCH, Book 1 - Miss Brooke, was published on 1st December
1871. It was an instant commercial and critical success, and
continues to captivate readers 150 years later. **One of the BBC's
100 Novels That Shaped Our World**
Best known for his brief marriage to George Eliot, John Cross (1840
1924) compiled this three-volume 'autobiography' of 1885 from his
late wife's journals and letters. Eliot was never married to her
long-term partner G. H. Lewes, and she courted further scandal when
she married Cross, twenty years her junior, in 1880. While these
volumes offer a valuable insight into Eliot's private reflections,
what is perhaps most telling is the material left out or rewritten
in Cross' efforts to lend his wife's unconventional life some
respectability, which he does at the expense of what one reviewer
described as Eliot's 'salt and spice'. George Eliot's Life will be
of particular interest to scholars of nineteenth-century biography
and literature. Volume 1 covers Eliot's life from 1819 to 1857,
beginning with a brief sketch of her childhood and continuing with
her move to Coventry, then to London, and travels to Geneva.
Best known for his brief marriage to George Eliot, John Walter
Cross (1840-1924) compiled this three-volume 'autobiography' of
1885 from his late wife's journals and letters. Eliot was never
married to her long-term partner G. H. Lewes, and she courted
further scandal when she married Cross, twenty years her junior, in
the spring of 1880. While these volumes offer a valuable insight
into Eliot's private reflections, what is perhaps most telling is
the material left out or rewritten in Cross' efforts to lend his
wife's unconventional life some respectability, which he does at
the expense of what one reviewer described as Eliot's 'salt and
spice'. George Eliot's Life will be of particular interest to
scholars of nineteenth-century biography and literature. Volume 3
focuses on Eliot's final years, including her later literary
success, travels in Spain, the death of G. H. Lewes, and her
marriage to Cross.
The German theologian David Friedrich Strauss (1808 1874) published
his highly controversial The Life of Jesus in three volumes between
1835 and 1836. This translation by George Eliot is based on the
fourth German edition (1840). Strauss applied strict historical
method to the gospel narratives and caused scandal across the
Protestant world by concluding that all miraculous elements were
mythical and ahistorical. Strauss introduces Volume 1 with a survey
of 'de-mythology' in Western thought. He applies modern historical
and scientific criticism to the annunciation and birth narratives;
the Davidic descent and genealogies of Jesus; Jesus' visit to the
temple; Jesus' baptism and temptation and his relationship with
John the Baptist. The volume ends with a chapter on chronology and
locality in the life of Jesus. This is a key text of
nineteenth-century theology that pioneered the application of
historical and scientific methods to the study of religious texts.
The German theologian David Friedrich Strauss (1808 1874) first
published his highly controversial The Life of Jesus in three
volumes between 1835 and 1836. This translation, by George Eliot,
is based on the fourth German edition (1840). In this work Strauss
applied strict historical methods to the New Testament gospel
narratives and caused scandal across the Protestant world by
concluding that all miraculous elements in the life of Jesus were
mythical and ahistorical. In volume 2 Strauss applies modern
historical criticism to 'de-mythologize' the idea of Jesus as
Messiah; the narratives about the disciples; the discourses in the
Synoptic gospels and the Fourth Gospel; the non-miraculous events;
and the miracles' narratives. This is a key text of
nineteenth-century theology that pioneered the application of
historical and scientific methods to the study of religions and
religious texts. It is essential reading for any student of the New
Testament.
The German theologian David Friedrich Strauss (1808 1874) published
his highly controversial The Life of Jesus in three volumes between
1835 and 1836. This translation, by George Eliot, is based on the
fourth German edition (1840). In this work Strauss applied strict
historical method to the New Testament gospel narratives and caused
scandal across the Protestant world by concluding that all
miraculous elements were mythical and ahistorical. Volume 3 applies
modern historical criticism to 'de-mythologize' the narratives of
the transfiguration, Jesus' final journey into Jerusalem, the
passion, the death, and the resurrection; and investigates the
historicity of Jesus' enemies. The volume concludes with an essay
entitled 'The Dogmatic Import of the Life of Jesus'. This is a key
text of nineteenth-century theology that pioneered the application
of historical and scientific methods to the study of religious
texts. It is essential reading for any student of the New
Testament.
George Eliot's notebooks from the years 1872-77 contain memoranda
of her reading while she was preparing for and writing Daniel
Deronda, together with the 'Oriental Memoranda' and other notes she
recorded in the year following the novel's publication. Above all,
the notebooks reveal her acquisition of a wide range of learning
about Judaism and provide insight into the creative process of
integrating that learning into Daniel Deronda. One of these
notebooks is published in this 1996 book; others are offered in new
transcriptions. They are all presented in a form which demonstrates
the intellectual coherence underlying the diversity of the
memoranda: translations are provided for the notes in German,
French, Italian, Greek, and Hebrew; explanatory notes are offered,
and interpretative links are made to the novel; primary sources are
traced and the chronology of Eliot's reading outlined.
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