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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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Average rating: 3.88 · 418,605 ratings · 28,734 reviews · 3,137 distinct works • Similar authors
Middlemarch
4.04 avg rating — 179,415 ratings — published 1872 — 2461 editions
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Silas Marner
3.69 avg rating — 93,796 ratings — published 1861 — 27 editions
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The Mill on the Floss
3.84 avg rating — 59,145 ratings — published 1860 — 257 editions
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Daniel Deronda
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3.87 avg rating — 26,870 ratings — published 1876 — 876 editions
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Adam Bede
3.83 avg rating — 26,452 ratings — published 1859 — 6 editions
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The Lifted Veil
3.40 avg rating — 5,389 ratings — published 1859 — 1078 editions
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Romola
3.76 avg rating — 4,792 ratings — published 1863 — 1152 editions
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Felix Holt: The Radical
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Scenes of Clerical Life
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Series by George Eliot

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.”
― George Eliot, Impressions of Theophrastus Such
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Polls

March 2018 Old School

Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1832, 503 pages
 
  51 votes, 14.6%

Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi 1883, 262 pages
 
  43 votes, 12.3%

 
  36 votes, 10.3%

 
  35 votes, 10.0%

The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot 1860, 579 pages
 
  33 votes, 9.5%

Jude the Obscure by 1895, 310 pages
 
  21 votes, 6.0%

 
  19 votes, 5.4%

 
  18 votes, 5.2%

The Red and the Black by Stendhal1830, 608 pages
 
  18 votes, 5.2%

 
  15 votes, 4.3%

Evelina by Fanny Burney 1778, 455 pages
 
  15 votes, 4.3%

The Misanthrope by Molière 1666, 64 pages
 
  14 votes, 4.0%

Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand 1897, 240 pages
 
  11 votes, 3.2%

 
  8 votes, 2.3%

Bel-Ami by Guy de Maupassant1885, 416 pages
 
  7 votes, 2.0%

 
  5 votes, 1.4%

349 total votes
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