Adam Bede follows the lives of a fictional rural community. The life and expectations of the good carpenter Adam Bede are disrupted when the local lord takes liberties below his station and his conscience. The novel is a discussion of class and education and also of religion, with the female Methodist preacher Dinah Morris coming to the fore as the novel progresses.
Daniel Deronda meets the beautiful, extravagant Gwendolen in Germany and witnesses her great gambling losses which contribute to her family's bankruptcy. He then intervenes when she means to pawn her necklace, and the story splits, to narrate their two separate histories.
Eliot's only novel set in her contemporary Victorian society, Daniel Deronda was a controversial work of moral and social questioning, which explored Jewish Zionism and Kaballism.
In the novel Felix Holt, the Radical, George Eliot (the pseudonym of Mary Anne Evans) turns her attention to political affairs. However, although the Reform movement of the early 1800s is an important plot point in the novel, the tale focuses more on the intersection between politics and society, and the myriad ways in which changes in the law can and do affect family and intimate relationships.
Inhalt: On April 10, 1994, PBS stations nationwide will air the first episode of a lavish six-part Masterpiece Theatre production of Eliot's brilliant work, Middlemarch, hosted by Russell Baker and produced by Louis Marks. The Modern Library is pleased to offer this official companion edition, complete with tie-in art and printed on acid-free paper. Unabridged. Umfang: 800 S. ISBN: 978-0-698-40841-8
Inhalt: »Tausend Seiten Leseglück.« NZZ am SonntagDie Grenzen des Dorfes sind die Grenzen unserer Welt. Das akzeptieren vielleicht die restlichen Bewohner von Middlemarch, aber nicht Dorothea und Tertius. Wieso sollte einer jungen Frau der Zugang zu Wissen und Geist verschlossen bleiben, wenn die alten Männer damit nur Schindluder treiben? Und warum sollte ein junger Arzt nicht neue Methoden anwenden dürfen, wenn man dadurch Menschenleben retten kann? Neugier ist Pflicht für Dorothea und Tertius. Und um ihre Pflicht zu erfüllen, setzen sie vieles aufs Spiel. Schlagworte: F Belletristik und verwandte Gebiete, FB Belletristik: allgemein und literarisch, FBC Klassische Belletristik: allgemein und literarisch Umfang: 1152 S. ISBN: 978-3-423-43629-8
Inhalt: «Middlemarch», der berühmteste Roman von Mary Ann Evans, die unter dem männlichen Pseudonym George Eliot auftrat, um als schreibende Frau wahrgenommen zu werden, gilt bis heute zu Recht als Höhepunkt der englischen Romankunst des 19. Jahrhunderts; seine Mischung aus Realismus, farbiger Personenzeichnung, psychologischer Einfühlung, naturwissenschaftlichem und philosophischem Interesse und historischem und sozialgeschichtlichem Bewusstsein ist unerreicht. Das Buch zeichnet ein lebhaftes Gemälde von den Skurrilitäten der englischen Provinz und ihrer Bewohner. Es ist mit scheinbar leichter Hand geschrieben, in einem Stil, den eine verhaltene, doch stets präsente elegante Ironie prägt, wie sie ähnlich vollendet in der englischen Literatur vielleicht am ehesten Jane Austen ein halbes Jahrhundert vor George Eliot zu Gebote stand. Für Virginia Woolf war es «das herrliche Buch» schlechthin. Schlagworte: F Belletristik und verwandte Gebiete, FB Belletristik: allgemein und literarisch, FBC Klassische Belletristik: allgemein und literarisch Umfang: 1264 S. ISBN: 978-3-644-05741-8
Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life is exactly what it claims. Its multiple plots center around the inhabitants of a fictitious Midlands town and their evolving relationships to each other. It is critical of social class, ambition and marriage, and religion. It is commonly considered one of the masterpieces of English writing, and Virginia Woolf described it as "the magnificent book that, with all its imperfections, is one of the few English novels written for grown-up people".
Victorian-era novelist George Eliot (the pen name of female writer Mary Anne Evans) is best known for her multi-layered takes on nineteenth-century British society, such as the masterpiece Middlemarch. She takes on a similarly ambitious task in the engaging tale Romola, albeit one that is set in Renaissance Italy rather than her own era. This historical novel adroitly captures the social upheaval and cultural ferment that arose during this remarkable period.
Scenes of Clerical Life is the collection of the first three stories published by George Eliot, originally in Blackwood's Magazine. They all take place in the fictional midlands town of Milby and are concerned with the affect of religious reform on clergymen and their congregations.
Silas Marner is accused of stealing funds from his small Christian congregation. Presumed guilty by his community and rejected by the woman he loves, Silas leaves and lives as a recluse near Raveloe village. He takes refuge only in working and attaining wealth, until his precious gold is stolen from him. But a child, her mother found dead in the snow, is thrust into his life, changing it completely. Ultimately, Silas Marner is a redeeming story of love and loyalty.
Working under the nom de plume George Eliot, gifted writer Mary Anne Evans made a name for herself as one of the foremost innovators in the realm of realistic fiction. In The Lifted Veil, however, she takes a sharp detour from the detailed depictions that characterized novels such as Middlemarch. In this short novel, Evans explores the realm of extrasensory perception, focusing on a protagonist who seems to have been given the ability to peer into the innermost thoughts of those around him—often with disastrous results.
George Eliot's novel The Mill on the Floss, orginally published in 1860 as three volumes, tells of the lives of brother and sister Tom and Maggie Tulliver as they grow up upon the River Floss.
This adaptation of George Eliot's beloved novel The Mill on the Floss will engage and delight readers young and old alike. The story focuses on the lives of a pair of siblings, Tom and Maggie Tulliver, who grow up in a bucolic but hardscrabble rural setting in the fictional town of St. Ogg's.
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