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  • George Eliot

    A Very Short Introduction

    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring George Eliot pushed the boundaries of fiction and of Victorian society. She was an extraordinary woman whose unconventional life meant that she was judged harshly by family, friends, and strangers. Eliot wanted to draw attention to the feelings and motivations of ordinary people, so that we might feel more generous towards each other. But human ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of George Eliot

    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    George Eliot repeatedly stressed the aesthetic and ethical importance of viewing subjects from different perspectives: The Oxford Handbook of George Eliot presents fifty-two perspectives on this major nineteenth-century writer. Together, the chapters provide the most wide-ranging collection of essays on Eliot's life and works published to date. While providing fresh perspectives on the important ... Read more

    $188.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    George Eliot

    A Very Short Introduction

    Narrated by Mary Jane Wells ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 3 min

    George Eliot pushed the boundaries of fiction and of Victorian society. She was an extraordinary woman whose unconventional life meant that she was judged harshly by family, friends, and strangers. Eliot wanted to draw attention to the feelings and motivations of ordinary people, so that we might feel more generous towards each other. But human beings are complex, and to capture that complexity ... Read more

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  • The Mill on the Floss

    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'Was her life to be always like this? - always bringing some new source of inward strife?' When the miller Mr Tulliver becomes entangled in lawsuits, he sets off a chain of events that will profoundly affect the lives of his family and bring into conflict his passionate daughter Maggie with her inflexible but adored brother Tom. As she grows older, Maggie's discovery of romantic love draws her ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Jane Eyre

    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    "Gentle reader, may you never feel what I then felt!" Throughout the hardships of her childhood - spent with a severe aunt and abusive cousin, and later at the austere Lowood charity school - Jane Eyre clings to a sense of self-worth, despite of her treatment from those close to her. At the age of eighteen, sick of her narrow existence, she seeks work as a governess. The monotony of Jane's new ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Silas Marner

    The Weaver of Raveloe

    by George Eliot ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    Gold! - his own gold - brought back to him as mysteriously as it had been taken away! Falsely accused of theft, Silas Marner is cut off from his community but finds refuge in the village of Raveloe, where he is eyed with distant suspicion. Like a spider from a fairy-tale, Silas fills fifteen monotonous years with weaving and accumulating gold. The son of the wealthy local Squire, Godfrey Cass also ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

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    by Leo Tolstoy ...
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  • Silas Marner (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. The Weaver of Raveloe (Victorian Novel)

    Silas Marner (1861) is George Eliot's compact yet profound fable of loss, exile, moral renewal, and communal belonging. Set in the Midlands village of Raveloe, the novel contrasts the weaver's alienated, mechanized life with the organic rhythms of rural society. Its lucid realism is enriched by symbolic patterning—gold, hearth, child, and loom—placing it between Victorian social fiction and moral ... Read more

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  • The Lifted Veil

    by George Eliot ...
    The tale of a man who is incapacitated by visions of the future and the cacophony of overheard thoughts, and yet who can't help trying to subvert his vividly glimpsed destiny, it is easy to read The Lifted Veil as being autobiographically revealing—of Eliot's sensitivity to public opinion and her awareness that her days concealed behind a pseudonym were doomed to a tragic unveiling (as indeed came ... Read more

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  • Northanger Abbey

    by Jane Austen ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy, would have supposed her born to be an heroine.' Northanger Abbey is a comedy about reading and misreading-of books and the world-and about different kinds of peril, both imagined and real. In it, Austen's youngest heroine, Catherine Morland, must navigate financial disadvantage, social constraint, and sometimes quite ruthless manipulation ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Wuthering Heights

    by Emily Brontë ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'You said I killed you - haunt me, then!' Wuthering Heights is one of the most famous love stories in the English language. It is also one of the most potent revenge narratives. The intense and unbreakable bond between the fiery Catherine Earnshaw and the foundling Heathcliff has startled and fascinated readers since its first publication in 1847. Of uncertain parentage and ethnicity, Heathcliff ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Pride and Prejudice

    by Jane Austen ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    "He began to feel the danger of paying Elizabeth too much attention." Pride and Prejudice , one of the most famous love stories of all time, has also proven itself as a treasured mainstay of the English literary canon. With the arrival of eligible young men in their neighbourhood, the lives of Mr. and Mrs. Bennet and their five daughters are turned inside out and upside down. Pride encounters ... Read more

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