New Releases by George Eliot

The Mill on the Floss is the story of Maggie Tulliver''s search for love, and acceptance by her family and community, and of her need for intellectual and spiritual growth.

"The Mill on the Floss" is one of Eliot''s best written novels. The novel is highly concerned with a morality that should function among all people. Eliot fights against the influence of class, money, gender, and even handicap, repeatedly showing that being a good person is independent of these things. A true classic!

Writing at the very moment when the foundations of Western thought were being challenged and undermined, George Eliot fashions in Middlemarch (1871-2) the quintessential Victorian novel, a concept of life and society free from the dogma of the past yet able to confront the scepticism that was taking over the age. In a panoramic sweep of English life during thr years leading up to the First Reform Bill of 1832, Eliot explores nearly every subject of concern to modern life: art, religion, science, politics, self, society, human relationships. Among her characters are some of the most remarkable portraits in English literature: Dorothea Brooke, the heroine, idealistic but näive; Rosamond Vincy, beautiful and egoistic: Edward Casaubon, the dry-as-dust scholar: Tertius Lydgate, the brilliant but morally-flawed physician: the passionate artist Will Ladislaw: and Fred Vincey and Mary Garth, childhood sweethearts whose charming courtship is one of the many humorous elements in the novel''s rich comic vein. Felicia Bonaparte has provided a new Introduction for this updated edition, the text of which is taken from David Carroll''s Clarendon Middlemarch (1986), the first critical edition.

Falsely accused, cut off from his past, Silas the weaver is reduced to a spider-like existence, endlessly weaving his web and hoarding his gold. Meanwhile, Godfrey Cass, son of the squire, contracts a secret marriage. While the village celebrates Christmas and New Year, two apparently inexplicable events occur. Silas loses his gold and finds a child on his hearth. The imaginative control George Eliot displays as her narrative gradually reveals causes and connections has rarely been surpassed. This edition, which is based on the carefully corrected text George Eliot prepared a few months after the first edition, is accompanied by an introduction which illuminates the intellectual context of what has often been presented as a nostalgic, sentimental tale. - ;It came to me first of all, quite suddenly, as a sort of legendary tale, suggested by my recollection of having once, in early childhood, seen a linen-weaver with a bag on his back; but, as my mind dwelt on the subject, I became inclined to a more realistic treatment. Falsely accused, cut off from his past, Silas the weaver is reduced to a spider-like existence, endlessly weaving his web and hoarding his gold. Meanwhile, Godfrey Cass, son of the squire, contracts a secret marriage. While the village celebrates Christmas and New Year, two apparently inexplicable events occur: Silas loses his gold and finds a child on his hearth. The imaginative control George Eliot displays as her narrative gradually reveals causes and connections has rarely been surpassed. Silas Marner (1861) is the shortest and most immediately accessible of Eliot''s novels. She takes the materials of legend and fairy tale and provides them with a historically precise setting, drawing on some of the most advanced ideas of her day in order to represent states of mind and belief at the limits of rational perception. This edition, which is based on the carefully corrected text George Eliot prepared a few months after the first edition, is accompanied by an introduction which illuminates the intellectual context of what has often been presented as a nostalgic, sentimental tale. -

Middlemarch, a Study of Provincial Life is a novel by Mary Anne Evans, an English writer that functioned under the title George Eliot. It had been initially printed in 8 volumes in 1871 as well as 1872. It is set in Middlemarch, a fictional English Midland city in the years 1829 to 1832 and also tells a number of unique, intertwining stories regarding several characters, like the condition of women, political reform, hypocrisy, religion, selfishness, idealism, marriage, and training. Middlemarch uses realism to depict historic events in spite of its comic components. The 1832 Reform Act, the first railways and also the arrival of King William IV. It looks at the state of medicine at the turn of the century as well as the reactionary perceptions associated with a settled society dealing with unwelcome change. Eliot wrote the two sections of the novel in completed and 1869 - 1870 it in 1871. First reviews have been mixed, though it''s turned out to be widely recognized as her best and one of the best novels in English. Here is the complete text of the novel with the followings annotations: *Biographical Information: Relationship with George Lewes The critic and philosopher George Henry Lewes (1817 78) met Evans in 1851, and also by 1854 they''d chose to live together. Lewes was actually married to Agnes Jervis, though in an open marriage. Besides the 3 kids they''d together, Agnes also had 4 kids by Thornton Leigh Hunt.In July 1854, Evans and Lewes travelled to Berlin and Weimar collectively for the goal of investigation.