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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.
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.
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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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.
'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.
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**
With precise plotting underpinned by a wise understanding of human nature, George Eliot’s most autobiographical novel gives a wonderful evocation of rural life and the complicated relationship between siblings.
Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This edition of The Mill on the Floss features an introduction by Professor Kathryn Hughes.
Maggie Tulliver and her brother Tom enjoy a rural childhood on the banks of the river Floss. But the approach of adulthood creates tension: intelligent and fiery Maggie tests the boundaries of nineteenth-century society in her search for love, while Tom embraces convention and accepts his father’s desire for him to become a businessman. Increasingly self-righteous, Tom disapproves of his sister’s suitors and when he discovers that she took a fateful boat trip with Stephen Guest, her cousin’s fiancé, he turns his back on her. Maggie is ostracized by her beloved brother and her own community, and only through tragic events are the siblings reunited . . .
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.
This classic novel, first published in 1860, tells the story of
Maggie Tulliver. Intelligent and headstrong but trapped by the
conventions of family tradition and rural life, Maggie is one of
the great heroines of Victorian literature. Along with Maggie's
story, the novel also tells a companion tale of the social
pressures that restrict the vision of her beloved brother Tom.
George Eliot's most autobiographical novel, The Mill on the Floss
remains one of her most popular and influential works. This
Broadview edition includes a critical introduction and extensive
contextualizing notes as well as a broad range of appendices drawn
from contemporary documents dealing with issues such as
19th-century views of disability, education, and the Woman
Question.
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 gives rich expression to every nuance of
feeling, and 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 counterpoint to each other. Art,
religion, politics, society, science, human relationships in all
their complexity, nothing is left unexamined under the narrator's
microscope. One of the greatest novels written in the English
language, Middlemarch is a literary landmark in its groundbreaking
approach, as well as a priceless document of its age.
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Middlemarch (Hardcover)
George Eliot; Introduction by Rosemary Ashton
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One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World' 'One of the few
English novels written for grown-up people' Virginia Woolf George
Eliot's nuanced and moving novel is a masterly evocation of
connected lives, changing fortunes and human frailties in a
provincial community. Peopling its landscape are Dorothea Brooke, a
young idealist whose search for intellectual fulfilment leads her
into a disastrous marriage to the pedantic scholar Casaubon; Dr
Lydgate, whose pioneering medical methods, combined with an
imprudent marriage to the spendthrift beauty Rosamond, threaten to
undermine his career; and the religious hypocrite Bulstrode, hiding
scandalous crimes from his past. Edited with an Introduction and
notes by ROSEMARY ASHTON
Maggie Tulliver and her brother Tom grow up in the Mill on the
River Floss. Although Maggie adores Tom, she often finds him cruel
and cold. All she wants is for life to be full and warm. The
Tulliver family's traditional way of living is threatened by
changes beyond their control. Will the educated world of lawyers
and lawsuits destroy what generations have enjoyed? As Maggie grows
into adulthood, how can she control her passionate nature? With a
destiny like an unmapped river; full, deep and rapid, where will
love and desire lead her? Where will it all end?
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Silas Marner (Paperback, New edition)
George Eliot; Introduction by R.T. Jones; Notes by R.T. Jones; Series edited by Keith Carabine
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Introduction and Notes by R.T. Jones, Honorary Fellow of the
University of York. 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.
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Middlemarch (Paperback)
George Eliot, Francine Prose
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Having been accused of theft and hounded out of a religious
community many years previously, the weaver Silas Marner now lives
alone in the village of Raveloe, hoarding the precious wealth he
earns. But when Silas's beloved gold is stolen, and an orphaned
girl finds her way into his home, he is given the opportunity to
transform his selfish and embittered life. George Eliot's favourite
novel - rich in symbolism, humour and social criticism - Silas
Marner is one of the great nineteenth-century portrayals of rural
life. Based on the most authoritative edition and edited using a
fresh, intelligent editorial approach, this edition contains
extensive notes on the text together with extra material about the
author's life and works.
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Daniel Deronda (Paperback)
George Eliot; Introduction by Carole Jones; Notes by Carole Jones; Series edited by Keith Carabine
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With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Carole Jones, freelance writer
and researcher. George Eliot's final novel, Daniel Deronda (1876),
follows the intertwining lives of the beautiful but spoiled and
selfish Gwendolene Harleth and the selfless yet alienated Daniel
Deronda, as they search for personal and vocational fulfilment and
sympathetic relationship. Set largely in the degenerate English
aristocratic society of the 1860s, Daniel Deronda charts their
search for meaningful lives against a background of imperialism,
the oppression of women, and racial and religious prejudice.
Gwendolen's attempts to escape a sadistic relationship and atone
for past actions catalyse her friendship with Deronda, while his
search for origins leads him, via Judaism, to a quest for moral
growth. Eliot's radical dual narrative constantly challenges all
solutions and ensures that the novel is as controversial now, as
when it first appeared.
George Eliot's Middlemarch (1871-72) is one of the classic novels
of English literature and was admired by Virginia Woolf as "one of
the few English novels written for grown-up people." The complex
main plot and many subplots revolve around Dorothea Brooke, an
ardent young woman, and her relationship to three men: Casaubon, a
clergyman and scholar twice her age; Lydgate, an ambitious young
doctor who shares Dorothea's enthusiasm for reform but whose flaws
compromise his ambitions; and Will Ladislaw, a young man of
mysterious origins, romantic temperament, and artistic
inclinations. A female Bildungsroman and a study of character and
society in the realistic mode pioneered by Balzac, Middlemarch is
also an historical novel that offers a panorama of English society
in an era of social reform and political agitation. This Broadview
edition includes a critical introduction and a rich selection of
contextual materials, including contemporary reviews of the novel,
other writings by George Eliot (essays, reviews, and criticism),
and historical documents pertaining to medical reform, religious
freedom, and the advent of the railroads.
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