Great Novels of George Eliot

by George Eliot

Contains: Adam Bede, Mill on the Floss, Silas Marner.

Genres: Fiction

917 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 1994

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

[Eiron Page · Rating 4 out of 5]

Well, this took me the longest of times to read. But it was well worth it, in the end. The books are ordered well in this volume, almost like a three-course meal with the at-times heavy main of Mill on the Floss being set up well beforehand with the appetiser that is Adam Bede. And Silas Marner makes for an agreeable palate-cleanser afterward.

If this were the intent of the compiler, then it could not have been much more successful. I had always meant to read Eliot and by virtue of this collection, I have managed to enjoy three works that perfectly adhered to the brief as set out on its cover.

[Tinquerbelle]

1) Adam Bede
2) The Mill on the Floss
3) Silas Marner