Having been accused of theft and hounded out of a religious community many years previously, the weaver Silas Marner now lives alone in the village of Raveloe, hoarding the precious wealth he earns. But when Silas's beloved gold is...

"God gave her to me because you turned your back upon her, and He looks upon her as mine: you've no right to her!"Wrongly accused of theft and exiled from a religious community many years before, the embittered weaver Silas Marner lives...

Raised in the idyllic setting of Dorlcote Mill, the wild and wilful Maggie Tulliver adores her elder brother Tom and is forever trying to gain the approbation of her parents. Yet, as she grows older and the family struggle under the...

George Eliot's first novel shows all her humane intelligence and intimate knowledge of the richness and complexity of ordinary life. . von Eliot, George

Reproduction of the original: The Essays of "George Eliot" by George Eliot von Eliot, George

Latimer is cursed with psychic abilities that allow him to see the future, yet he's unable to avoid the dark turn of his own life. What many consider a gift, he sees as a curse that has destroyed his ability to have normal relationships....

The most ambitious narrative of nineteenth-century realism, Middlemarch tells the story of an entire town in the years leading up to the Reform Bill of 1832, a time when modern methods were starting to challenge old orthodoxies. Eliot's...

Mary Anne Evans was born near Nuneaton on 22 November 1819. She adopted the pseudonym George Eliot when she began her writing career. In her youth she was heavily influenced by her evangelical teachers but she later broke with orthodox...

Der junge Leinenweber Silas Marner verliert durch eine Intrige seines besten Freundes nicht nur seine Verlobte, sondern auch seinen Platz in der Gemeinde. Er sieht sich gezwungen, seine nordenglische Heimat zu verlassen, und zieht in das...

Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon...

150th ANNIVERSARY GIFT EDITION WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ZADIE SMITH Discover one of the most admired, best loved and influential novels in the history of English literature. 'If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human...

»›Middlemarch‹ ist wahrscheinlich der bedeutendste englische Roman überhaupt.« Julian Barnes Die Grenzen des Dorfes sind die Grenzen unserer Welt. Das akzeptieren vielleicht die restlichen Bewohner von Middlemarch, aber nicht Dorothea...