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Mary Ann Evans was born on November 22, 1819, at Chilvers Coton, Warwickshire, England, the last child of an estate agent. During her girlhood, she went through a phase of evangelical piety, but her strong interest in philosophy and her friendship with religious freethinkers led to a break with orthodox religion. When one of these friends married in 1843, Mary Ann took over from his wife the task of translating D.F. Strauss’s The Life of Jesus Critically Examined (1846), a work that had deep effect on English rationalism. After her father’s death she settled in London and from 1851 to 1854... Read More
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Silas Marner
Format: Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: September 1, 1981
Price: $3.95
Embittered by a false accusation, disappointed in friendship and love, the weaver Silas Marner retreats into a long twilight life alone with his loom. . . and his gold. Silas hoards a treasure that kills his spirit until fate steals it from him and replaces it with a golden-haired founding child... Read more >
Format: Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: September 1, 1981
Price: $3.95
Embittered by a false accusation, disappointed in friendship and love, the weaver Silas Marner retreats into a long twilight life alone with his loom. . . and his gold. Silas hoards a treasure that kills his spirit until fate steals it from him and replaces it with a golden-haired founding child... Read more >
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Silas Marner
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: May 8, 2001
Price: $7.95
Eliot's penetrating portrayal of a miser who learns to love an orphaned and abandoned child, this novel is a cherished masterwork and a moving story of redemption by the one of the Victorian era's most accomplished novelists. Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: May 8, 2001
Price: $7.95
Eliot's penetrating portrayal of a miser who learns to love an orphaned and abandoned child, this novel is a cherished masterwork and a moving story of redemption by the one of the Victorian era's most accomplished novelists. Read more >
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Middlemarch
Format: Paperback, 1088 pages
On Sale: February 1, 1985
Price: $6.99
Few novelists have ever attempted so broad a canvas as George Eliot in her masterpiece, Middlemarch. Portraying every level of social life in a provincial Midlands town called Middlemarch, she interweaves several intensely dramatic stories of love and death, betrayal and reconciliation, into one of the finest pictures of nineteenth-century England... Read more >
Format: Paperback, 1088 pages
On Sale: February 1, 1985
Price: $6.99
Few novelists have ever attempted so broad a canvas as George Eliot in her masterpiece, Middlemarch. Portraying every level of social life in a provincial Midlands town called Middlemarch, she interweaves several intensely dramatic stories of love and death, betrayal and reconciliation, into one of the finest pictures of nineteenth-century England... Read more >
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Daniel Deronda
Format: Trade Paperback, 832 pages
On Sale: July 9, 2002
Price: $11.00
George Eliot’s final novel and her most ambitious work, Daniel Deronda contrasts the moral laxity of the British aristocracy with the dedicated fervor of Jewish nationalists. Crushed by a loveless marriage to the cruel and arrogant Grandcourt, Gwendolen Harleth seeks salvation in the deeply spiritual and altruistic Daniel Deronda. But Deronda... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 832 pages
On Sale: July 9, 2002
Price: $11.00
George Eliot’s final novel and her most ambitious work, Daniel Deronda contrasts the moral laxity of the British aristocracy with the dedicated fervor of Jewish nationalists. Crushed by a loveless marriage to the cruel and arrogant Grandcourt, Gwendolen Harleth seeks salvation in the deeply spiritual and altruistic Daniel Deronda. But Deronda... Read more >
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The Mill on the Floss
Format: Trade Paperback, 656 pages
On Sale: November 13, 2001
Price: $10.00
One of George Eliot's best-loved works, The Mill on the Floss is a brilliant portrait of the bonds of provincial life as seen through the eyes of the free-spirited Maggie Tulliver, who is torn between a code of moral responsibility and her hunger for self-fulfillment. Rebellious by nature, she causes friction... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 656 pages
On Sale: November 13, 2001
Price: $10.00
One of George Eliot's best-loved works, The Mill on the Floss is a brilliant portrait of the bonds of provincial life as seen through the eyes of the free-spirited Maggie Tulliver, who is torn between a code of moral responsibility and her hunger for self-fulfillment. Rebellious by nature, she causes friction... Read more >
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Middlemarch
Format: Trade Paperback, 848 pages
On Sale: October 10, 2000
Price: $11.00
One of the most accomplished and prominent novels of the Victorian era, Middlemarch is an unsurpassed portrait of nineteenth-century English provincial life. Dorothea Brooke is a young woman of fervent ideals who yearns to effect social change yet faces resistance from the society she inhabits. In this epic in a small... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 848 pages
On Sale: October 10, 2000
Price: $11.00
One of the most accomplished and prominent novels of the Victorian era, Middlemarch is an unsurpassed portrait of nineteenth-century English provincial life. Dorothea Brooke is a young woman of fervent ideals who yearns to effect social change yet faces resistance from the society she inhabits. In this epic in a small... Read more >
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Middlemarch
Format: Hardcover, 644 pages
On Sale: October 15, 1991
Price: $24.00
(Book Jacket Status: Not Jacketed)
Introduction by E. S. Shaffer Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 644 pages
On Sale: October 15, 1991
Price: $24.00
(Book Jacket Status: Not Jacketed)
Introduction by E. S. Shaffer Read more >
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Daniel Deronda
Format: Hardcover, 928 pages
On Sale: September 19, 2000
Price: $26.00
George Eliot's last and most unconventional novel is considered by many to be her greatest. First published in installments in 1874-76, Daniel Deronda is a richly imagined epic with a mysterious hero at its heart. Deronda, a high-minded young man searching for his path in life, finds himself drawn by a... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 928 pages
On Sale: September 19, 2000
Price: $26.00
George Eliot's last and most unconventional novel is considered by many to be her greatest. First published in installments in 1874-76, Daniel Deronda is a richly imagined epic with a mysterious hero at its heart. Deronda, a high-minded young man searching for his path in life, finds himself drawn by a... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
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Romola
Format: Trade Paperback, 656 pages
On Sale: June 10, 2003
Price: $11.95
George Eliot’s Romola, writes Robert Kiely in his Introduction, embodies the author’s “wrestling with her own best theories of history and human nature as a creative experiment of the highest order.” Set in Florence in 1492, a time of great political and religious turmoil, Eliot’s novel blends vivid fictional characters with... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 656 pages
On Sale: June 10, 2003
Price: $11.95
George Eliot’s Romola, writes Robert Kiely in his Introduction, embodies the author’s “wrestling with her own best theories of history and human nature as a creative experiment of the highest order.” Set in Florence in 1492, a time of great political and religious turmoil, Eliot’s novel blends vivid fictional characters with... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Adam Bede
Format: Hardcover
On Sale: April 28, 1992
Price: $22.00
(Book Jacket Status: Not Jacketed)
The exhilaration that comes from reading Adam Bede Owes its existence to the fact that on every page George Eliot seems absorbed in the process of spiritual discovery. The evocations of bygone rural life for which Adam Bede was so resoundingly praised on its publication in 1859... Read more >
Format: Hardcover
On Sale: April 28, 1992
Price: $22.00
(Book Jacket Status: Not Jacketed)
The exhilaration that comes from reading Adam Bede Owes its existence to the fact that on every page George Eliot seems absorbed in the process of spiritual discovery. The evocations of bygone rural life for which Adam Bede was so resoundingly praised on its publication in 1859... Read more >
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The Mill on the Floss
Format: Hardcover, 640 pages
On Sale: December 15, 1992
Price: $23.00
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
In The Mill on the Floss, George Eliot re-creates her own childhood through the story of the wild, gifted Maggie Tulliver and her spoiled, selfish brother. Though tragic in its outcome, this tenderly comic novel combines vivid vignettes of family life with a magnificent portrait of the heroine... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 640 pages
On Sale: December 15, 1992
Price: $23.00
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
In The Mill on the Floss, George Eliot re-creates her own childhood through the story of the wild, gifted Maggie Tulliver and her spoiled, selfish brother. Though tragic in its outcome, this tenderly comic novel combines vivid vignettes of family life with a magnificent portrait of the heroine... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Silas Marner
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: March 9, 1993
Price: $20.00
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
Introduction by Rosemary Ashton
The isolated, misanthropic, miserly weaver Silas Marner is one of George Eliot’s greatest creations, and his presence casts a strange, otherworldly glow over the moral dramas, both large and small, that take place in the pastoral landscape that surrounds him.
When Marner is wrongly accused of... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: March 9, 1993
Price: $20.00
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
Introduction by Rosemary Ashton
The isolated, misanthropic, miserly weaver Silas Marner is one of George Eliot’s greatest creations, and his presence casts a strange, otherworldly glow over the moral dramas, both large and small, that take place in the pastoral landscape that surrounds him.
When Marner is wrongly accused of... Read more >
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Daniel Deronda
Format: eBook, 832 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $11.00
George Eliot’s final novel and her most ambitious work, Daniel Deronda contrasts the moral laxity of the British aristocracy with the dedicated fervor of Jewish nationalists. Crushed by a loveless marriage to the cruel and arrogant Grandcourt, Gwendolen Harleth seeks salvation in the deeply spiritual and altruistic Daniel Deronda. But Deronda... Read more >
Format: eBook, 832 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $11.00
George Eliot’s final novel and her most ambitious work, Daniel Deronda contrasts the moral laxity of the British aristocracy with the dedicated fervor of Jewish nationalists. Crushed by a loveless marriage to the cruel and arrogant Grandcourt, Gwendolen Harleth seeks salvation in the deeply spiritual and altruistic Daniel Deronda. But Deronda... Read more >
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hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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Middlemarch
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 29, 2008
Price: $6.99
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... Read more >
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 29, 2008
Price: $6.99
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... Read more >
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Middlemarch
Format: eBook
On Sale: November 1, 2000
Price: $11.00
Middlemarch is George Eliot's masterpiece, a Victorian novel on the grandest scale. Originally published in serial form in Blackwood's Magazine in 1871-1872, it was at once a critical and popular success. 'No Victorian novel approaches Middlemarch in its width of reference, its intellectual power, or the imperturbable spaciousness of its narrative,'... Read more >
Format: eBook
On Sale: November 1, 2000
Price: $11.00
Middlemarch is George Eliot's masterpiece, a Victorian novel on the grandest scale. Originally published in serial form in Blackwood's Magazine in 1871-1872, it was at once a critical and popular success. 'No Victorian novel approaches Middlemarch in its width of reference, its intellectual power, or the imperturbable spaciousness of its narrative,'... Read more >
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Romola
Format: eBook, 656 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $11.95
George Eliot’s Romola, writes Robert Kiely in his Introduction, embodies the author’s “wrestling with her own best theories of history and human nature as a creative experiment of the highest order.” Set in Florence in 1492, a time of great political and religious turmoil, Eliot’s novel blends vivid fictional characters with... Read more >
Format: eBook, 656 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $11.95
George Eliot’s Romola, writes Robert Kiely in his Introduction, embodies the author’s “wrestling with her own best theories of history and human nature as a creative experiment of the highest order.” Set in Florence in 1492, a time of great political and religious turmoil, Eliot’s novel blends vivid fictional characters with... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Silas Marner
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 31, 2006
Price: $3.95
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
Introduction by Rosemary Ashton
The isolated, misanthropic, miserly weaver Silas Marner is one of George Eliot’s greatest creations, and his presence casts a strange, otherworldly glow over the moral dramas, both large and small, that take place in the pastoral landscape that surrounds him.
When Marner is wrongly accused of... Read more >
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 31, 2006
Price: $3.95
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
Introduction by Rosemary Ashton
The isolated, misanthropic, miserly weaver Silas Marner is one of George Eliot’s greatest creations, and his presence casts a strange, otherworldly glow over the moral dramas, both large and small, that take place in the pastoral landscape that surrounds him.
When Marner is wrongly accused of... Read more >
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