Daniel Deronda opens with one of the most memorable encounters in fiction: Gwendolen Harleth, alluring yet unsettling, is poised at the roulette-table in Leubronn, observed by Daniel Deronda, a young man groomed in the finest tradition of the English upper classes, and now searching for his path in ...
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Dorothea is beautiful and rebellious and has married the wrong man. Lydgate is an ambitious doctor and has married the wrong woman. They long to make a positive difference in the world. But they and other inhabitants of Middlemarch, must struggle to reconcile themselves to their fates and find their ...
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The lonely and unhappy life of a miserly recluse is transformed when he takes in an orphaned child and raises her as his own daughter. Read by Andrew Sachs.
Although George Eliot was noted primarily for her fiction, she wrote poems all her adult life, frequently using passages of them as epigraphs in her novels. Her poetry includes "O May I Join the Choir Invisible," "Agatha," and a sonnet sequence entitled BROTHER AND SISTER, based on her own childhood ...
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This is the challenge thrown down to Esther Lyon, George Eliot's heroine in FELIX HOLT: THE RADICAL (1866). Esther's 'airs and graces', her proud and sensitive dreams of marrying into a life of refinement are transformed in the course of the novel, as she makes her choice between Harold Transome, wh ...
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