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George Eliot


Born
in Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England, The United Kingdom
November 22, 1819

Died
December 22, 1880

Genre
Literature & Fiction, Poetry, Journalism

Influences
Jane Austen, Walter Scott, Charlotte Brontë, George Sand, Charles Dick ...more


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
4.03 avg rating — 172,812 ratings — published 1872 — 2485 editions
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Silas Marner
3.69 avg rating — 91,000 ratings — published 1861 — 3812 editions
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The Mill on the Floss
3.83 avg rating — 57,576 ratings — published 1860 — 263 editions
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Daniel Deronda
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Adam Bede
3.82 avg rating — 25,973 ratings — published 1859 — 2126 editions
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Romola
3.76 avg rating — 4,669 ratings — published 1863 — 1157 editions
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The Lifted Veil
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Felix Holt: The Radical
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Scenes of Clerical Life
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Amos Barton Mr Gilfil’s Love Story Janet’s Repentance Scenes of Clerical Life
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Miss Brooke Middlemarch Book II: Old an... Waiting for Death Middlemarch, Vol. 4: Three ... The Dead Hand The Widow and the Wife Two Temptations
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Middlemarch, Volume 1 Middlemarch, Volume 2 Middlemarch, Volume III
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“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
― George Eliot
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“What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?”
― George Eliot
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“Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.”
― George Eliot, Impressions of Theophrastus Such
tags: loquacity, remaining-silent, silence
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Polls

May 2017 Old School Classic Poll

 
  61 votes, 18.5%

Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol, 1842, 512 pages
 
  59 votes, 17.9%

The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri, 1320, 798 pages
 
  49 votes, 14.8%

Silas Marner by George Eliot, 1861, 248 pages
 
  37 votes, 11.2%

The Black Tulip by Alexandre Dumas, 1850, 246 pages
 
  31 votes, 9.4%

 
  26 votes, 7.9%

 
  21 votes, 6.4%

 
  16 votes, 4.8%

Germinal by Émile Zola, 1885, 592 pages
 
  16 votes, 4.8%

Père Goriot by Honoré de Balzac, 1834, 370 pages
 
  12 votes, 3.6%

 
  2 votes, 0.6%

330 total votes
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