by George Eliot · EDICIONES LA UÑA ROTA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788418782015
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Delve into the mind of George Eliot with 'Essays and Leaves from a Notebook', a collection of essays translated into Spanish for the first time. Eliot, whose real name was Mary Ann Evans, was not only a prominent novelist but also a keen observer of the socio-cultural dynamics of the 19th century. In these essays, Eliot examines the urgencies and frictions of her time, revealing a thinker of action who knew how to identify the complexities of human psychology. Admired by figures such as Charles Dickens and Virginia Woolf, Eliot offers in these writings a deep dialogue with authors such as Sophocles and Balzac, exploring themes of resistance and the dichotomies she sought to overcome through writing.
Mary Ann Evans, known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She wrote seven novels: Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), Romola (1862–1863), Felix Holt, the Radical (1866), Middlemarch (1871–1872) and Daniel Deronda (1876). Her novels are known for their realism, psychological insight, sense of place, and detailed depiction of the countryside. Middlemarch was described by the novelist Virginia Woolf as "one of the few English novels written for grown-up people" and by Martin Amis and Julian Barnes as the greatest novel in the English language.
