Forfatter fødeår: 1819-1880
Middlemarch er en typisk engelsk provinsby omkring 1830. Handlingen i George Eliots kalejdoskopiske roman følger to hovedspor. I det ene gifter purunge Dorothea Brooke sig med den ældre præst... Læs mere
Middlemarch er hovedværket i George Eliots forfatterskab. Den psykologiske indsigt i romanens karakterer og deres motiver gør romanen lige så medrivende i dag, som dengang den blev skrevet.... Læs mere
Features Dorothea Brooke, a young idealist whose search for intellectual fulfillment leads her into a disastrous marriage to the pedantic scholar Casaubon; and the charming but tactless Dr... Læs mere
Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life, published 1871-2, is set in the imaginary county of Loamshire during the years of unrest preceding the 1832 Reform Bill.... Læs mere
Writing at the very moment when the foundations of Western thought were being challenged and undermined, George Eliot fashions in Middlemarch a concept of life and society free of the past's dogma yet able to confront the scepticism that was taking over the age.
Da Silas Marner udstødes af sin religiøse sekt, flygter han ud på landet og slår sig ned som væver i landsbyen Raveloe. Her lever han et afsondret liv indtil den dag, hvor hans sammensparede... Læs mere
The Lifted Veil (1859) is now one of the most widely read and critically discussed of Eliot's works.
George Eliot’s masterful portrayal of rural nineteenth-century society, with a new introduction by Professor Kathryn Hughes.
Follows lives of the beautiful but spoiled Gwendolene Harleth and selfless yet alienated Daniel Deronda, as they search for personal and vocational fulfilment and sympathetic... Læs mere
"Tiden er årene under Napoleonskrigene (1792-1815), og vi følger den beskedne og enfoldige væver Silas Marners liv i en lille landsby. Han havde en særlig position i en... Læs mere
"I think Silas Marner holds a higher place than any of the author's works," said Henry James of this classic George Eliot novel. When a little girl wanders into a random house one cold... Læs mere
Presented here with extra material about the author's life and works, notes and bibliographic information, The Mill on the Floss is one of literature's finest evocations of childhood and adolescence.