Embittered by a false accusation and disappointed in friendship and love, the weaver Silas Marner retreats into a life alone with his loom and his gold. Fate steals his gold and replaces it with a golden-haired foundling child.

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 weight of severe pecuniary difficulties, she becomes increasingly caught between the divergent expectations of the four men in her life: a doting father, an obdurate and vengeful brother, a good-looking and frivolous suitor...

The Lifted Veil's sickly narrator, Latimer, believes himself to be cursed with the ability to see the future and sense the thoughts and feelings of those around him. Disgusted by what he sees in the minds of others, he accepts that he will lead an unobtrusive life, constantly overshadowed by his more vigorous elder brother. That is, until he meets and becomes fascinated with Bertha, his brother's beautiful and coquettish fiancée. The Lifted Veil...

Mary Ann Evans (22 November 1819 – 22 December 1880; alternatively "Mary Anne" or "Marian"), known by her pen name George 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 Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), Middlemarch (1871–72), and Daniel Deronda (1876), most of them set in provincial England and known for...

The three stories are set during the last twenty years of the eighteenth century and the first half of the nineteenth century over a fifty year period. The stories take place in and around the fictional town of Milby in the English Midlands. Each of the Scenes concerns a different Anglican clergyman, but is not necessarily centred upon him. Eliot examines, among other things, the effects of religious reform and the tension between the Established...

A sweet tooth can lead you into a whole lot of trouble. After years of working as a confectioner, David is desperate for a change of scene. So, he sets his sights on the West Indies. In order to finance the trip, he swindles money out of his brother Jacob and their mother. But the past has a funny way of coming back to bite you, as David discovers, when years later he and Jacob cross paths again. One of George Eliot's few novellas, "Brother Jacob"...

George Eliot, a pseudonym for Mary Anne Evans, was one of the leading writers of the Victorian era, publishing seven major novels and several translations during her career. The Selected Works of George Eliot includes all seven of the author's novels: Adam Bede, The Lifted Veil, The Mill on the Floss, Silas Marner, Romola, Middlemarch, and Daniel Deronda.

Gwendolen Harleth es la mayor de cinco hermanas, que la admiran. Es hermosa, egoísta y malcriada, y cree poseer grandes cualidades. Cortejada por los jóvenes de su localidad, su destino cambiará cuando se cruce con el de Daniel Deronda, un joven aristocrático que vive con su tío y que posee con una disposición natural a ayudar a los demás. Sin embargo, el joven vive atormentado al ignorar su verdadero origen. Tras conocer a Daniel y escuchar...

Read these Victorian Masterpieces by George Eliot. This collection of George Eliot's novels includes: Middlemarch; Adam Bede; Silas Marner; The Lifted Veil; The Mill on the Floss.

In Victorian England, idealistic Dorothea Brooke yearns to lead a meaningful life beyond society's constraints. George Eliot's masterpiece "Middlemarch" follows her ill-fated marriage to the aging scholar Casaubon, while interweaving the lives of ambitious doctor Tertius Lydgate, the reformed rake Fred Vincy, and the steadfast Mary Garth. Their private struggles with love, duty, and disappointed dreams unfold against the backdrop of a society resistant...