George Eliot
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As Maggie Tulliver approaches maturity she enters into conflict with family and community over her desire to be more than just average. Eliot's exploration of Maggie's dilemma makes this novel as relevant today as it was in the 19th century. This edition contains a new chronology, and updated further reading.
2) Silas Marner
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This novel was George Eliot's favourite. It concerns a bitter weaver who takes on a young orphan girl and gradually transforms his own life and that of the girl. The novel combines humour, rich symbolism and pointed social criticism to create an unsentimental portrait of rural English life.
6) Middlemarch
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Period drama set in the 19th Century and based on the George Eliot novel which follows the lives and loves of a group of people living in a small town, in the 1830s. Filmed in Stamford, Lincolnshire.
7) Middlemarch
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Dorothea Brooke is a beautiful and idealistic young woman set on filling her life with good deeds. She pursues the pompous Edward Casuabon, convinced that he embodies these principles, and becomes trapped in an unhappy marriage. Then there is Tertius Lydgate, an anguished progressive whose determination to bring modern medicine to the provinces is muddied by unrequited love. They, and a multitude of other brilliantly drawn characters, reside in the...
9) Adam Bede
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Penguin
Pub. Date
2008
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Margaret Reynold's introduction sets out the social background to 'Adam Bede', discusses the genesis of the novel, explores changing attitudes towards it and reassesses critical perceptions of the major characters.
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Clarity
Pub. Date
2018
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Silas Marner keeps his gold in a hole under the floorboards. Every day he works hard as a weaver, and every night he takes the gold out and holds the bright coins lovingly, feeling them and counting them again and again. But what if a thief should come in the night and take his gold away?