George Eliot: 8 books

George Eliot is the greatest of the novelists in the delineation of feeling and the analysis of motives. In “uncovering certain human lots, and seeing how they are woven and interwoven,” some marvellous work has been done by this master in the two arts of rhetoric and fiction. If you say the telling...

Middlemarch: Complete 8 Books By George Eliot, first published in 1874. The pen name of Mary Anne Evans, later Marian Evans. The epic novel has been called one of the greatest works of English literature. The novel is comprised of four plots, all featuring residents of Middlemarch. It is her...

Caterina Sarti is the orphaned daughter of an Italian music master who has been brought up by the aristocratic Cheverel family. In love with the Cheverel heir, Anthony Wybrow, her hopes of marrying him are frustrated by the discovery that not only has Anthony merely been playing with her affections,...

Mary Ann Evans (22 November 1819 – 22 December 1880; alternatively "Mary Anne" or "Marian"), known by her pen nameGeorge Eliot, was an English novelist, journalist, translator and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She is the author of seven novels, including Adam...

Impressions of Theophrastus Such is a work of fiction by George Eliot, first published in 1879. It was Eliot's last published writing and her most experimental, taking the form of a series of literary essays by an imaginary minor scholar whose eccentric character is revealed through his work.

EXTRAIT: PRÉFACE   Quel est celui d’entre nous qui, curieux de connaître l’histoire de l’homme et de savoir comment agit ce composé mystérieux sous les épreuves du temps, ne s’est arrêté, ne fût-ce qu’un instant...

SEARCH OVER Sex and Love by ELIOT GEORGE is the third in the ‘David quartet’ of which the first was SEARCH FOR THE WOMAN Sex and Satisfaction. Now in middle age and retired early from full-time work in the Nineties, David leaves England to live abroad in more congenial climes. This book (set in...

SEARCH FOR THE WOMAN is the first of a quartet following the life and adventures of David through the astonishing social and political changes, in Britain and the wider world, from the end of the Second World War to the end of the first decade of the twenty-first century. This book tells the...