George Eliot's Middlemarch, A Study of Provincial Life was first published in 1871-72 in a series of eight volumes. Set in 1829-32 in the fictitious town of Middlemarch, it follows several separate but related stories featuring a large cast of characters. In it, Eliot explores themes of marriage and women's roles in society, idealism and religion, self-interest and hypocrisy, and political reform and education. Featuring the realism that Eliot is known for, Middlemarch is considered...
George Eliot's Middlemarch, A Study of Provincial Life was first published in 1871-72 in a series of eight volumes. Set in 1829-32 in the fictitious town of Middlemarch, it follows several separate but related stories featuring a large cast of characters. In it, Eliot explores themes of marriage and women's roles in society, idealism and religion, self-interest and hypocrisy, and political reform and education. Featuring the realism that Eliot is known for, Middlemarch is considered...
George Eliot's Middlemarch, A Study of Provincial Life was first published in 1871-72 in a series of eight volumes. Set in 1829-32 in the fictitious town of Middlemarch, it follows several separate but related stories featuring a large cast of characters. In it, Eliot explores themes of marriage and women's roles in society, idealism and religion, self-interest and hypocrisy, and political reform and education. Featuring the realism that Eliot is known for, Middlemarch is considered...
Мэри Энн Эванс, писавшая под псевдонимом Джордж Элиот, вошла в историю английской литературы как один из выдающихся мастеров поздневикторианского романа. Роман «Мидлмарч» – главное произведение писательницы, подлинный шедевр, в котором нашли свое отражение все главные идеи, характеры и сюжетные ходы английской литературы конца XIX века. Место его действия – провинциальный городок в Средней Англии со всеми его тайнами и загадками, скрывающимися за красивыми фасадами благоустроенных домов....
«Сайлес Марнер» – самый яркий из «сельских» романов Джордж Элиот. Герои живут убедительной в глазах читателя жизнью, их окружает конкретный, узнаваемый мир. Это последний «автобиографический» роман писательницы. Сайлес Марнер, искусный ткач и некогда уважаемый член небольшого религиозного общества, пережил предательство, людскую несправедливость и потерю с трудом заработанных долгими годами денег. Когда ничто, казалось бы, не вернет замкнувшемуся и нелюдимому Сайлесу веру в жизнь и людей, в...
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.‘Our consciousness rarely registers the beginning of a growth within us any more than without us: there have been many circulations of the sap before we detect the smallest sign of the bud.’Set in the agricultural town of Raveloe in the English countryside, Silas Marner is a tragic figure. Exiled from a religious community because of a wrongful accusation of theft, he works from day to day as a weaver, saving his...
A level 4 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Retold for Learners of English by Clare West. In a hole under the floorboards Silas Marner the linen-weaver keeps his gold. Every day he works hard at his weaving, and every night he takes the gold out and holds the bright coins lovingly, feeling them and counting them again and again. The villagers are afraid of him and he has no family, no friends. Only the gold is his friend, his delight, his reason for living. But what if a thief should...
