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George Eliot

Born

in South Farm, Arbury Hall, Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England

November 22, 1819

Died

December 22, 1880

Genre

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 was born in 1819 at a farmstead in Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England, where her father was estate manager. Mary Ann, the youngest child and a favorite of her father's, received a good education for a young woman of her day. Influenced by a favorite governess, she became a religious evangelical as an adolescent.

Her first published work was a religious poem. Through a family friend, she was exposed to Charles Hennell's "An Inquiry into the Origins of Christianity". Unable to believe, she conscientiously gave up religion and stopped attending church. Her father shunned her, sending th ...more

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	Middlemarch 4.01 avg rating — 155,430 ratings — published 1872 — 4730 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 3.67 avg rating — 83,736 ratings — published 1861 — 455 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 3.82 avg rating — 53,358 ratings — published 1860 — 3806 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) 3.85 avg rating — 25,142 ratings — published 1876 — 1898 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 3.81 avg rating — 24,818 ratings — published 1859 — 3628 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 3.76 avg rating — 4,361 ratings — published 1863 — 145 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) 3.70 avg rating — 4,046 ratings — published 1866 — 715 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 — 4,041 ratings — published 1859 — 22 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) 3.79 avg rating — 3,004 ratings — published 1857 — 572 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 3.96 avg rating — 930 ratings — published 1861 — 23 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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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain 1889, 480 pages

57 votes, 16.3%

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46 votes, 13.2%

Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman 1855, 624 pages

33 votes, 9.5%

Silas Marner by George Eliot 1861, 262 pages

27 votes, 7.7%

The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane 1895, 170 pages

27 votes, 7.7%

The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1774, 176 pages

27 votes, 7.7%

Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev 1862, 244 pages

22 votes, 6.3%

Germinal by Émile Zola 1885, 592 pages

19 votes, 5.4%

Elizabeth and Her German Garden byElizabeth von Arnim 1898, 207 pages

13 votes, 3.7%

Père Goriot by Honoré de Balzac 1834, 370 pages

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9 votes, 2.6%

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