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George Eliot


Born
in Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England, The United Kingdom
November 22, 1819

Died
December 22, 1880

Genre
Literature & Fiction, Poetry, Journalism

Influences
Jane Austen, Walter Scott, Charlotte Brontë, George Sand, Charles Dick ...more


Mary Ann Evans, known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She wrote seven novels: Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), Romola (1862–1863), Felix Holt, the Radical (1866), Middlemarch (1871–1872) and Daniel Deronda (1876). Like Charles Dickens and Thomas Hardy, she emerged from provincial England; most of her works are set there. Her works are known for their realism, psychological insight, sense of place and detailed depiction of the countryside.
Middlemarch was described by the novelist Virginia Woolf as "one of the few English novels written for grown-up people" and by Martin Amis and Julian Barnes as t ...more

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Middlemarch
4.03 avg rating — 176,725 ratings — published 1872 — 2503 editions
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Silas Marner
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The Mill on the Floss
3.83 avg rating — 58,476 ratings — published 1860 — 2491 editions
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Daniel Deronda
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Adam Bede
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Romola
3.76 avg rating — 4,739 ratings — published 1863 — 1157 editions
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The Lifted Veil
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Felix Holt: The Radical
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Scenes of Clerical Life
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Amos Barton Mr Gilfil’s Love Story Janet’s Repentance Scenes of Clerical Life
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Miasteczko Middlemarch Tom I Middlemarch - Part II
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Miss Brooke Middlemarch Book II: Old an... Waiting for Death Middlemarch, Vol. 4: Three ... The Dead Hand The Widow and the Wife Two Temptations
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Middlemarch, Volume 1 Middlemarch, Volume 2 Middlemarch, Volume III
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Middlemarch, vol. 1/4 Middlemarch, vol. 2/4 Middlemarch, vol. 3/4 Middlemarch, vol. 4/4
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“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
― George Eliot
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“What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?”
― George Eliot
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“Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.”
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2nd Quarter 2018 (April-June) Long Read Poll

David Copperfield by Charles Dickens, 1849, 882 pages
 
  62 votes, 15.7%

 
  61 votes, 15.5%

The Arabian Nights, 800, 1049 pages
 
  42 votes, 10.7%

 
  35 votes, 8.9%

The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu, 1008, 1182 pages
 
  29 votes, 7.4%

 
  27 votes, 6.9%

The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough, 1977, 692 pages
 
  23 votes, 5.8%

Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace, 1996, 1088 pages
 
  22 votes, 5.6%

 
  20 votes, 5.1%

The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio, 1353, 909 pages
 
  20 votes, 5.1%

The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing, 1962, 640 pages
 
  15 votes, 3.8%

 
  11 votes, 2.8%

The Histories by Herodotus, 400 BCE, 716 pages
 
  9 votes, 2.3%

Daniel Deronda by George Eliot, 1865, 796 pages
 
  6 votes, 1.5%

 
  5 votes, 1.3%

 
  4 votes, 1.0%

Five Smooth Stones by Ann Fairbairn, 1966, 933 pages
 
  3 votes, 0.8%

394 total votes
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