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About the book:
A deeply felt novel of a woman straining against the limits her world imposes.
Eliot at her most personal and devastating.
Good secondhand condition.
Some wear to cover.
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About the author:
George Eliot (1819 to 1880)
Born Mary Ann Evans in Warwickshire, England, in 1819, George Eliot grew up in a rural, middle-class environment. Highly intelligent and largely self-educated, she worked as a translator and journalist before turning to fiction. Her decision to live with the married writer George Henry Lewes (without marrying) and her choice of a male pen name reflected her defiance of Victorian social conventions.
Her early success arrived with Scenes of Clerical Life (1857), but it was The Mill on the Floss (1860) and especially Middlemarch (187172) that established her as one of the greatest novelists in English. Eliot developed a deeply psychological, morally serious style characterized by profound empathy, social observation, and intellectual rigor. She wrote with compassion for ordinary lives and a keen awareness of the moral complexities of human choices.
Deeply influenced by the realist tradition, Walter Scott, and the philosophical ideas of her time (including positivism and Spinoza), Eliot in turn became a towering figure in Victorian literature. She profoundly shaped later realist and psychological novelists, including Henry James, Virginia Woolf, and many authors who explore moral growth, social change, and the inner lives of women. She is adjacent to contemporaries like Charles Dickens, Anthony Trollope, and Elizabeth Gaskell.
Recurring preoccupations include moral responsibility, the effects of social change on individuals, the inner lives of women, the tension between personal desire and duty, and the importance of sympathy and understanding. Major works include Adam Bede, The Mill on the Floss, Silas Marner, and her masterpiece Middlemarch.
Eliot lived with Lewes until his death and later married John Walter Cross. She died in 1880 at the age of 61.
George Eliots influence on English literature is immense: she elevated the novel as a vehicle for profound moral and psychological inquiry while remaining utterly unique in her blend of intellectual depth, compassionate realism, and narrative power.
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