Eliot: 583 books

Published in 1879, this is Eliot’s last completed work, and perhaps her most underrated. It consists of a series of essays told by a nameless English bachelor. Though critics harshly judged the work as “ponderous and moralizing” when it was published, today’s readers will recognize Eliot’s...

Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition of Felix Holt, The Radical. It was previously published by other bona fide publishers, and is now, after many years, back in print. This is a new and freshly published edition of this culturally important work by George...

El molino del Floss Inspirada en gran parte en los recuerdos de la infancia de la autora, El molino del Floss gira en torno al desigual destino de Tom y Maggie Tulliver, los hijos del molinero. A pesar de la inteligencia natural deMaggie, es Tom, por ser varón, quien recibe la educación y en quien...

Punzante, entretenidísima y profundamente lúcida, George Eliot parodia las tópicas novelas que dominaban los listados de ventas de su tiempo, con sus encantadoras y hermosas heroínas, y sus previsibles y azucarados finales. Sin cortapisas, sin reservas impuestas por los convencionalismos sociales...

Silas Marner, un bondadoso tejedor, es acusado de un robo abyecto cometido por su mejor amigo, lo que le obliga a exiliarse de su comunidad. Se instala en Raveloe, un pueblo apartado, en donde se convierte en un solitario y huraño avariento cuya existencia se reduce al trabajo en el telar y a acumular...

Published in 1859, Adam Bede was Eliot's first novel.  This remarkably accomplished debut established Eliot as a writer of the first rank.  In rural Hayslope, Adam Bede, a local carpenter, falls in love with the beautiful but vain Hetty Sorrell, who is herself in love with a caddish young squire who seduces her and casts her aside.

George Eliot was one of the best writers of the 19th century, but By George, this was no man. Instead, George Eliot was the pen name of Mary Anne Evans, a skilled female novelist who wanted to make sure her work was taken seriously by using a masculine pen name. The practice was widely used in Europe...

* Illustrated * Author Biography * Interactive Table of Contents * Free Audiobook Download Middlemarch [ Illustrated ] [ Free Audiobooks Download ] Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life is a novel by George Eliot, the pen name of Mary Anne Evans, later Marian Evans. It is her...

John Eliot Gardiner groeide letterlijk op onder een van de twee schilderijen die er van Johann Sebastian Bach bekend zijn: het hing in zijn ouderlijk huis. Geen wonder dat juist die componist hem is blijven fascineren. Gardiner heeft als dirigent talloze malen werken van Bach uitgevoerd, en hij wordt...

Here, from the award-winning writer and historian Alexander Eliot, is the dramatic story of the rise of ancient Greece to the fall of the Greek Empire - from the city-states of Athens and Sparta to the empire of Alexander the Great and the power of Constantine, from myths of gods and goddesses to...

 “The real lessons of teamwork don’t happen on camera. They happen behind the closed doors of locker rooms and team meetings and practice facilities. Kevin and John open those closed doors. All you need to do is get reading!”  —Larry Bird “Help the helper” is a basketball motto...

Jan Eliot's funny and irreverent Stone Soup follows the saga of an extended, blended family, starring two working-mom sisters living just across the fence from each other. Val and Joan share life with their opinionated mother, a middle-school diva and 10-year-old tomboy, a reclusive teenage boy, a wild...

Jan Eliot's funny and irreverent Stone Soup follows the saga of an extended, blended family, starring two working-mom sisters living just across the fence from each other. Val and Joan share life with their opinionated mother, a middle-school diva and 10-year-old tomboy, a reclusive teenage boy, a wild...