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George Eliot

Born

in Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England, The United Kingdom

November 22, 1819

Died

December 22, 1880

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Literature & Fiction, Poetry, Journalism

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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 4.05 avg rating — 185,501 ratings — published 1872 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Silas Marner 3.70 avg rating — 95,612 ratings — published 1861 — 3929 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Mill on the Floss 3.84 avg rating — 60,210 ratings — published 1860 — 2474 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Daniel Deronda by George Eliot, Edmund White (Introduction) 3.87 avg rating — 27,159 ratings — published 1876 — 877 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Adam Bede 3.83 avg rating — 26,711 ratings — published 1859 — 2197 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Lifted Veil 3.40 avg rating — 5,675 ratings — published 1859 — 1073 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Romola 3.77 avg rating — 4,874 ratings — published 1863 — 891 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Felix Holt: The Radical by George Eliot, Lynda Mugglestone (Editor) 3.72 avg rating — 4,416 ratings — published 1866 — 53 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Scenes of Clerical Life by George Eliot, Thomas A. Noble (Editor) 3.81 avg rating — 3,308 ratings — published 1857 — 38 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Silas Marner and Two Short Stories 3.95 avg rating — 1,008 ratings — published 1861 — 69 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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10 votes, 24.4%

1872, Middlemarch by George Eliot, 904 pages

3 votes, 7.3%

1915, Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham, 684 pages

3 votes, 7.3%

1981, Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie, 647 pages

3 votes, 7.3%

1847, Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray, 867 pages

3 votes, 7.3%

1982, North and South by John Jakes, 812 pages

2 votes, 4.9%

1943, The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand, 720 pages

2 votes, 4.9%

1984, Lincoln by Gore Vidal, 672 pages

1 vote, 2.4%

1920, The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy, 872 pages

1 vote, 2.4%

1972, Captains and the Kings by Taylor Caldwell, 816 pages

1 vote, 2.4%

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