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Silas Marner -- The Lifted Veil -- Brother Jacob -- Middlemarch.
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A wide plain, where the broadening Floss hurries on between its green banks to the sea, and the loving tide, rushing to meet it, checks its passage with an impetuous embrace. On this mighty tide the black ships-laden with the fresh-scented fir-planks, with rounded sacks of oil-bearing seed, or with the dark glitter of coal-are borne along to the town of St. Ogg's, which shows its aged, fluted red roofs and the broad gables of its wharves between the low wooded hill and the river-brink, tingeing the water with a soft purple hue under the transient glance of this February sun. Far away on each hand stretch the rich pastures, and the patches of dark earth made ready for the seed of broad-leaved...
One of many classic novels written by George Eliot - 'George Eliot' was the pseudonym used by Mary Ann Evans. She was one of the most important writers of the Victorian era, renowned for her deep psychological insight and sophisticated character portraits.
This narrative by George Eliot clearly depicts her feelings about the aristocracy. It reveals how honour and grace are the only qualities to be upheld. To endure hardships with poise and to bravely face the calamities that befall one with is the essence of life. Engrossing!
Mary Anne Evans (1819 - 1880), known by her pen name George Eliot, is the Victorian author of seven novels, most of them set in provincial England and known for their realism and psychological insight. Her plots are immaculate, every page advances the story, the characters are utterly believable and she continues to surprise the reader throughout the novels. This volume contains the later three novels: Felix Holt, the Radical, 1866; Middlemarch, 1871-72; Daniel Deronda, 1876.
Maggie is torn by her love for two men, Stephen and Phillip. This tale of love and loyalty takes a redemptive turn when the river floods.
Mary Anne Evans (1819-1880) used the pen name George Eliot to be taken seriously, and she was. One of the leading writers of the Victorian, Eliot is best known for The Mill on the Floss, Silas Marner, and Middlemarch, written with realism and psychological insight.