The Penguin English Library Edition of Middlemarch by George Eliot 'She did not know then that it was Love who had come to her briefly as in a dream before awaking, with the hues of morning on his wings - that it was Love to whom she was...

Die Gesellschaftsromane von George Eliot, eigentlicher Name Mary Anne Evans, haben das Bild desRealismus wesentlich geprägt. Die Autorin gilt alseine der Wegbereiterinnen des psychologisch orientierten Romans.Die Geschichte spielt im...

Silas Marner, a simple, religious man, angrily retreats from his community and church when he is unjustly accused of theft. In an isolated cottage, Silas spends his days weaving cloth and his nights sifting through the piles of gold he...

Excerpt: ...from the land of shades. 'It war Dorkis, sir, would hev me come; but we knowed nothin' o' what's happened at the Manor. She's frightened out on her wits about Miss Sarti, an' she would hev me saddle Blackbird this mornin',...

Carpenter Adam Bede is in love with the beautiful Hetty Sorrel, but unknown to him, he has a rival, in the local squire's son Arthur Donnithorne. Hetty is soon attracted by Arthur's seductive charm and they begin to meet in secret. The...

Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language. With carefully adapted text, new illustrations and language learning exercises, the print edition also includes instructions to access...

Im zweiten Band von George Eliots "Adam Bede" vertiefen sich die komplexen Beziehungen und Konflikte, die im ersten Band etabliert wurden. Die Erzählung konzentriert sich weiterhin auf das ländliche Leben in der englischen Gemeinde...

«Middlemarch» ist einer der größten englischen Romane des 19. Jahrhunderts: eine Studie der viktorianischen Gesellschaft mit unverwechselbaren Charakteren, die verständnisvoll und überzeugend gezeichnet sind; dazu wahrhaft Dickenssche...

"Daniel Deronda" ist ein Roman von George Eliot, der erstmals 1876 veröffentlicht wurde. Die Geschichte spielt im viktorianischen England und folgt zwei Hauptfiguren: Gwendolen Harleth und Daniel Deronda. Gwendolen Harleth ist eine...

George Eliot's beloved classic novel—hailed by Virginia Woolf as "masterful”—follows the life, loves, foibles, and politics of the residents of a fictional English town set amid the social unrest of the Industrial Revolution. This Harper...

Daniel Deronda, George Eliot's last great novel, charts the intertwined lives of spirited Gwendolen Harleth and the idealistic Deronda. Both are damaged by their pasts, and alienated from the society around them, in a story set against...

Enduring Literature Illuminated by Practical Scholarship A young orphan transforms the life of a lonely, embittered man in this novel about faith and society set in nineteenth-century rural England.Each Enriched Classic Edition includes:...