This text is an updated edition of George Eliot's classic tale. The novel is a masterly evocation of diverse lives and changing fortunes in a provincial community.

In this story the author recreates her own childhood through the story of the gifted Maggie Tulliver and her spoilt, selfish brother. Though tragic in its outcome, this comic novel combines vivid images of family life with a portrait of the heroine.

Combining humour, rich symbolism and pointed social criticism, this is an unsentimental, yet affectionate portrait of rural life. Its protagonist, a man wrongly accused and exiled is given a chance to achieve true happiness through his care of an orphaned girl.

When the young Harold Transome returns to England with a self-made fortune, he scandalizes the town of Treby Magna with his decision to stand for Parliament as a Radical. But, after the idealistic Felix Holt also returns to the town, the difference between Harold's opportunistic values and Holt's profound beliefs becomes apparent.

Although not among George Eliot's most admired works, this story is set in Florence at the end of the 15th century. It re-creates the picturesque complexion of the city and the characters of the historical figures, Charles VIII, Machiavelli and Savanorola.

In this work of feminist literary criticism the authors explore the works of many major 19th-century women writers. They chart a tangible desire expressed for freedom from the restraints of a confining patriarchal society and trace a distinctive female literary tradition.

142 Strand was the home of the brilliant publisher John Chapman. The Strand was packed with booksellers, magazine publishers, and theatres. Just behind lay the brothels of Covent Garden and the pornographers of Holywell Street. Chapman's circle touched all these worlds. This work tells the story of these unconventional lives and unorthodox views.

The great Victorian novelist's complete surviving journals - first publication of new George Eliot text.

An original and engaging analysis of the decline of religion in the nineteenth century.

A survey of English literature from the Middle Ages to the twenty-first century, this edition represents essential works in genres, ranging from Seamus Heaney's translation of Beowulf to global twentieth-century classics. It contains concise glosses and annotations, period introductions, biographical headnotes, timelines and bibliographies.

Drawing on nineteenth-century texts, including memoirs, histories, letters, works of journalism, and novels, this title shows that the startling ferocity of the conflict in India provoked a crisis of national conscience and a series of searing if often painfully ambivalent condemnations of British actions in India both prior to and during the war.

A provocative and entertaining guided tour of atheist and agnostic thought through the ages selected by bestselling author Christopher Hitchens

Two versions of George Eliot, radical thinker and reclusive novelist, are brought together in this chronological study of her work. As a result, she is placed within the crisis of belief acted out in the mid-nineteenth century.

A guide to one of the most successful yet controversial writers of the Victorian period - George Eliot, introducing the contexts and many interpretations of her work. This volume is useful for those beginning study of George Eliot.

Takes as her point of departure the common and painful truth that the vast majority of human beings toil for a wage and rarely for their own enjoyment or satisfaction. The author interrogates the relationship between labour and pleasure, two concepts that she argues were central to the Victorian imagination and the literary output of the era.

A new edition of the book first published in 1981, in which Elizabeth Longford describes the lives of eleven exceptional women and in doing so explores the lot of all women in the nineteenth century. She has chosen women who in their lives, actions or writings all fought against the repressive rules of Victorian society, including the Bronte sisters, George Eliot, Florence Nightingale, Josephine .