Adam Bede

Introduction and Notes by R.T. Jones, Honorary Fellow of the University of York. This novel, based on George Eliot's own experiences of provincial life, is a masterpiece of ambiguity in which moral choice is subjected to the hypocrisy of the Victorian age. As the headstrong Maggie Tulliver grows into womanhood, the deep love which she has for her brother Tom turns into conflict, because she cannot reconcile his bourgeois standards with her own lively intelligence. Maggie is unable to...

An analysis of the life of an English provincial town during the time of social unrest prior to the Reform Bill of 1832 told through the lives of Dorothea Brooke and Dr Tertius Lydgate. This title includes a host of other paradigm characters who illuminate the condition of English life in the mid-nineteenth century.

Мэри Энн Эванс, творившая под псевдонимом Джордж Элиот, вошла в историю как создательница и яркий представитель позднего викторианского романа. "Ромола" - известное произведение писательницы, действие которого происходит во Флоренции XV века. Выбрав одну из самых известных драматических эпох Италии, Элиот поставила перед собой задачу показать читателю острый момент в истории буржуазии, конфликт между Медичи, покровителями искусств, и Савонаролой, отрицателем гуманистической культуры Возрождения....

Introduction and Notes by R.T. Jones, Honorary Fellow of the University of York. This novel, based on George Eliot's own experiences of provincial life, is a masterpiece of ambiguity in which moral choice is subjected to the hypocrisy of the Victorian age. As the headstrong Maggie Tulliver grows into womanhood, the deep love which she has for her brother Tom turns into conflict, because she cannot reconcile his bourgeois standards with her own lively intelligence. Maggie is unable to adapt to...