Daniel Deronda
It is a long, profound novel of great erudition, mainly set in London. The author reflects on the psychology and thoughts of each character, contrasts interlocutors while criticizing hypocrisy in general,...
ELIOT, George (ps. de EVANS, Mary Anne)
Silas Marner
Silas, a linen weaver, is driven out of a small religious community when falsely accused of theft. He goes to Raveloe where Dunstan Cass, the son of the local squire, steals the little gold he had. Dunstan'...
The Mill on the Floss
Tom and Maggie are the children of the simple, ignorant miller Tulliver, working at Dorlcote Mill on the river Floss. Tom is more like his father and is unimaginative, while Maggie is rebellious, emotional...
Middlemarch
Middlemarch is in fictional Loamshire at the time of the Reform Bill. Dorothea Brooke marries the elderly Mr. Casaubon, and her sister Celia later married Sir James Chettam. Dorothea's marriage is...