George Eliot

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1) The mill on the Floss

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Harcourt library of English and American classics
Everyman's library volume no. 325
Everyman's library volume no. 326
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Brought up at Dorlcote Mill, Maggie Tulliver worships her brother Tom and is desperate to win the approval of her parents, but her passionate, wayward nature and her fierce intelligence bring her into constant conflict with her family. As she reaches adulthood, the clash between their expectations and her desires is painfully played out as she finds herself torn between her relationships with three very different men: her proud and stubborn brother,...

2) Middlemarch

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Eliot, George

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[A Modern library giant]
Oxford world's classics
Penguin English library EL2
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Set in a provincial Victorian neighborhood, the author explores the complex social relationship and the struggle to hold fast to personal tragedy in a materialistic environment.

3) Silas Marner

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Eliot, George

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Lake English classics
Winston companion classics
New pocket classics
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A miser finds redemption through caring for an abandoned child.

4) Adam Bede

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Eliot, George

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Penguin English library
Harcourt library of English and American classics
Everyman's library
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Originally published in 1859, "Adam Bede" is the first novel by George Eliot, which was the pen name of Mary Ann Evans. Eliot was one of the leading British writers of the Victorian era, as well as a noted journalist, poet, and translator. "Adam Bede" concerns a small, tight-knit, and fictional rural community called Hayslope and the romantic drama that develops between four of its young residents: the title character Adam, a young carpenter, the...

5) Middlemarch: a study of provincial life

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Eliot, George

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Works of George Eliot volume 4
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"Middlemarch - A Study of Provincial Life" is an 1871 novel by English author George Eliot. Set in the fictitious Midlands town of Middlemarch, the story revolves around the lives of its inhabitants in the years leading up to the Reform Act in 1832, particularly those of Dorothea Brooke, Tertius Lydgate, Nicholas Bulstrode, and Mary Garth. The novel deals with a variety of themes and issues including marriage, religion, hypocrisy, education, political...

6) Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)

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Eliot, George

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One

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More famously known by her pen name George Eliot, Mary Anne Evans was a celebrated novelist, journalist, translator, critic and leading writer of the Victorian era. Her novels of provincial life in England were celebrated for their innovative realism and psychological insight. This comprehensive eBook presents the complete works of George Eliot, with numerous illustrations, rare texts appearing in digital print for the first time, informative introductions

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7) Silas Marner

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Eliot, George

8) The Mill on the Floss: A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation

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Eliot, George

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George Eliot's classic Victorian epic about a brother and sister pitted against one another in love and life, starring Anna Maxwell Martin
Based on George Eliot's own rural upbringing and relationship with her estranged brother, The Mill on the Floss is a powerful, dynamic tale of familial rejection, sibling rivalry and what happens when the head confronts the heart.
Growing up at Dorlcote Mill in the beautiful English

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9) Silas Marner: the weaver of Raveloe

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Eliot, George

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HRW library
Barnes and Noble classics
Everyman's library volume 141
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In rural nineteenth-century England, a weaver, lonely and embittered at the unjust treatment he has received from people he considered to be his friends, finds his only solace in money until he inadvertently becomes the guardian of an orphaned little girl.