George Eliot: 231 books

Called one of George Eliot’s most autobiographical novels, this is a vivid and genuine portrait of Victorian family life. Mill on the Floss tells the story of young Maggie Tulliver, and how her struggles against the constraints of her community nearly shatter her relationship with her beloved brother Tom.

This wonderful collection of hand-picked Thanksgiving classics will make you fall in love with our sweet little stories and will become a part of your Thanksgiving story-telling traditions: An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving (Louisa May Alcott) The First Thanksgiving (Albert F. Blaisdell, Francis K. Ball)...

Dorothea Brooke, a los diecinueve años, ha recibido «una educación para jovencitas comparable a las cavilaciones y opiniones de un ratón pensante», pero, activa e idealista, enamorada de un sesudo erudito en temas mitológicos, desea, «pobre criatura, ser sabia también ella». Con esa altitud...

Quintaesencia de la novela victoriana. George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans, 1819-1880) traza con maestría los sutiles vaivenes que rigen los destinos de tres parejas. La ambición, los entimientos y deseos erróneos, el abismo entre lo que se dice y lo que realmente se oculta. Una comunidad retratada en...

Middlemarch: Un estudio de la vida en provincias es una novela de George Eliot, el seudónimo de Mary Anne Evans, llamada posteriormente Marian Evans.

“Silas Marner”, escrita en 1861 es la novela más afamada por la crítica de George Eliot (seudónimo de Mary Ann Evans). Protagonizada por Silas Marner, un hombre desdichado que, tras un desengaño amoroso y social, huye de su ciudad y se instala como tejedor en el pueblo de Raveloe, donde lleva...

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.

EXTRAIT: PRÉFACE   Quel est celui d’entre nous qui, curieux de connaître l’histoire de l’homme et de savoir comment agit ce composé mystérieux sous les épreuves du temps, ne s’est arrêté, ne fût-ce qu’un instant...

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.’ An epic study of provincial life at a time when England was facing rapid industrialization and increasingly...

Eliot’s first novel, Scenes of Clerical Life is comprised of three stories originally published in Blackwood’s Magazine in 1857. In these tales—“Mr. Gilfil’s Love Story,” “The Sad Fortunes of Reverend Amos Barton,” and “Janet’s Repentance”—Eliot explores such themes as religious...

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...

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...

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.

In this short novella, Eliot explores the fantastical subject of other-worlds and psychic ability in the form of Latimer, who is convinced he has special powers of perception.