The Best-Known Novels of George Eliot

by George Eliot

Includes the novels:

Adam Bede
The Mill on the Floss
Silas Marner
Romola

Genres: Fiction, Literature, Classics

1350 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1859

About the author

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 the greatest novel in the English language.

Reviews

[Rachel]

Adam Bede: 8/14/22-9/28/22 *****

[Meen]

I've only read Adam Bede, actually, so I won't rate this one. And now I can't read anymore from this particular book because an evil, evil dog we had when Billy and I lived together tried to EAT it! I came home before he got into the pages, but he did manage to tear the entire hardcover off. Omg, I was so livid!

[James Violand · Rating 5 out of 5]

To those who do not know, George Eliot is the pen name for Mary Ann Evans. She is one of my favorite authors. This compendium has her best - except for Middlemarch. Her characters are vivid and her sets are enchanting. Adam Bede and Silas Marner live on in my memory despite being created in 1859 and 1861.