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English
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From the author of MIDDLEMARCH and SILAS MARNER, a story of frustrated intelligence and longing, featuring the intelligent Maggie, who yearns to be loved, and her brother Tom, who is forced to study. When Maggie is cast out by Tom, she is ostracized by society, and must face the consequences of renunciation.
6) George Eliot
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Publisher
HarperPress
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
George Eliot was one of the greatest 19th century English novelists. With 'Middlemarch', 'Mill on the Floss', 'Silas Marner' and many other books, she turned the novel away from the narrow path of Dickens and Thackeray into the direction of serious criticism of life and probing analysis of human characters.
7) George Eliot
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Publisher
Routledge
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
This guide to George Eliot's work offers an accessible introduction to the contexts and many interpretations of her texts, from publication to the present. It also cross-references between sections of the guide, in order to suggest links between texts, context and criticism.
8) Middlemarch
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English
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In 'Middlemarch', George Eliot fashions a concept of life and society free of the dogma of the past yet able to confront the scepticism of the age.
9) Silas Marner
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Series
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English
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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.
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