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Silas Marner
Silas Marner – George Eliot ‘Silas Marner’ is definitely one of the authoress’s most beautiful stories, the most poetical of them all—the tale of Silas Marner, who deems himself deserted and rejected utterly of God and man and to whom, in his deepest misery, in place of lost gold, a little foundling girl is sent. […]
Middlemarch
Middlemarch – George Eliot To many critics Middlemarch is the greatest novel George Eliot ever wrote. Its scope, its variety, its maturity and insight, are indubitable. Yet to others it lacks something of the charm and spontaneity of the author’s earlier works, and its very inclusiveness and scope lead to a certain confusion of plan- […]
Romola
Romola – George Eliot Romola, one of the best-known novels by George Eliot (C. P. P.), was originally published in 1863. The scene is in Florence, Italy, at the end of the fifteenth century. Roinola, the heroine, a daughter of the Italian family of Bardi, marries Tito Melema, a Greek, but the marriage proves a […]
The Essays of George Eliot
The Essays of George Eliot – George Eliot George Eliot prepared for the press a few essays which she had written before she became famous. These essays she left, with the injunction that no fugitive writings of hers prior to 1857 should be republished, other than those thus prepared. Then they have been published as […]
Scenes of Clerical Life
Scenes of Clerical Life – George Eliot The first of the three stories, ‘The Sad Fortunes of the Reverend Amos Barton,’ is the slightest and simplest. Mr. Barton, a curate, with an income of eighty pounds a-year, with an angelic but sickly wife and a host of hungry little children, allows himself to be duped […]
The Mill on the Floss
The Mill on the Floss – George Eliot In the ‘Mill on the Floss’ the persons on whom the chief interest is supposed to depend are Tom and Maggie Tulliver, the children of a rough, honest, hot-tempered, obstinate, litigious miller. Old Tulliver is ruined by a lawsuit about “erigation,” and has a stroke of paralysis, […]
The Lifted Veil
The Lifted Veil – George Eliot ‚The Lifted Veil’ was George Eliot’s trip into the fantastic and horror fiction of the Victorian era. The novella, originally written in 1859, is all about extrasensory perception, the essence of physical life, possible life after death, and the power of fate. The Lifted Veil. ISBN: 9783849673819. Available at […]
Adam Bede
Adam Bede – George Eliot Adam is a young carpenter, who loves Hetty Sorrell, a pretty dairymaid, but finally marries Dinah Morris, a factory girl who becomes a Methodist preacher. Lisbeth Bede and Seth Bede are Adam’s mother and brother. Hetty Sorrell, who is vain and frivolous, is ruined by Arthur Donnithorne, a weak, good-natured […]
George Eliot; A Critical Study of Her Life, Writings & Philosophy
George Eliot; A Critical Study of Her Life, Writings & Philosophy – George Willis Cooke A whole generation, on either side of the Atlantic, used to fall sobbing at the name of Little Nell, which will hardly bring tears to the eyes of any one now, though it is still apparent that the child was […]
The History of Pittsburgh
The History of Pittsburgh – Sarah Hutchins Killikelly Miss Killikelly’s book is more than a history of Pittsburgh, and all but serves as a history of Allegheny County, of which Pittsburgh has long been the metropolis, and which since the creation of the Greater Pittsburgh — brought about since this book was published — stands […]