by George Eliot · Pollard & Moss, in 1888 · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781851527205
VAT included
Hamelyn quality guarantee · checked and verified, or your money back
This volume brings together three of George Eliot's greatest novels: Middlemarch, Silas Marner, and Amos Barton. Middlemarch features Dorothea, a bright and rebellious woman who marries the wrong man, and Lydgate, an ambitious doctor who also chooses the wrong partner. Both long to make a difference in the world, but their stories do not unfold as expected. Silas Marner tells the story of a solitary weaver whose life changes when he finds an orphaned girl. Amos Barton tells the story of a clergyman and his family in a rural community. This collection offers a comprehensive view of Victorian life, exploring themes such as love, ambition, and redemption.
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.
