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A story which evokes a bygone rural life, and is charged with a personal passion that intensifies the novel's outer dramas of seduction and betrayal and inner dramas of moral growth and redemptio

A tale of quiet lives in an early 19th-century English provincial town which engages the reader at every level, from the author's chronicle of everyday details to the most exacting philosophical

George Eliots last novel, published in 1876, weaves together two stories, one about Gwendolen Harleth, the spoilt beauty who marries for money, the other concerning the mysterious hero of the title whose search for his true destiny leads him towards Zionism.All Eliots great themes moral choice, the role of chance, the interaction of characters with their environment are worked out with her incomparable power, and many readers have agreed with F. R. Leavis that the first section of the novel is the greatest achievement in English fiction.

¿Cómo se explica la pasión de un hombre por una mujer con la que sabe que llevará una vida desgraciada? ¿Cómo podemos amar aquello que nos destruirá? El joven Mortimer, un melancólico que tiene "la sensibilidad del poeta sin su voz", adquiere inesperadamente el don de leer el pensamiento de los demas: solo una persona se le resiste y es la prometida de su hermano mayor. Sin embargo, una vision le anuncia que se casara con ella. Obra atipica en la produccion de George Eliot, El velo alzado, publicada en 1859 en la Blackwood s Edinburgh Magazine, es una nouvelle con sorprendentes elementos goticos y fantasticos que uno no suele asociar con la autora de Middlemarch. Pero el lector reconocera sin duda su huella en la sutileza y la profundidad del estudio de una personalidad tortuosa y en la compleja recreacion de un amor en el que conviven la fascinacion y la mezquindad.

One of the most ambitious narratives of nineteenth-century realism, Middlemarch tells the story of an entire town in the years leading up to the Reform Bill of 1832, a time when modern methods were starting to challenge old orthodoxies. Eliot's sophisticated and acute characterization gives rich expression to every nuance of feeling, and vividly brings to life the town's inhabitantsincluding the young idealist Dorothea Brooke, the dry scholar Casaubon, the young, passionate reformist doctor Lydgate, the flighty young beauty Rosamond, and the old, secretive banker Bulstrodeas they move in counterpoint to each other. Art, religion, politics, society, science, human relationships in all their complexitynothing is left unexamined under the narrator's microscope. Also included in this edition are pictures and an extensive section on George Eliot's life and works.

Considered one the masterpieces of realist fiction, George Eliot's novel, Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life, explores a fictional nineteenth-century Midlands town in the midst of modern changes. The quiet drama of ordinary lives and flawed choices are played out in the complexly portrayed central characters of the novel-the idealistic Dorothea Brooke; the ambitious Dr. Lydgate; the spendthrift Fred Vincy; and the steadfast Mary Garth. The appearance of two outsiders further disrupts the town's equilibrium - Will Ladislaw, the spirited nephew of Dorothea's husband, the Rev. Edward Casaubon, and the sinister John Raffles, who threatens to expose the hidden past of one of the town's elite.

"The sad fortunes of the Reverend Amos Barton", "Mr Gilfil's love-story" and "Janet's repentance", are the three stories which make up this, George Eliot's first work of fiction, published anonymously in "Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine" in 1857. In these stories George Eliot aimed to present, as truthfully as possible, the lives of ordinary men and women, their joys and suffering, their emotions, their conceptions of life and their human weaknesses, in such a way that they might capture the reader's sympathy and compassion. This edition reproduces the text of the same editor's Clarendon edition, based on the first volume printing collated with later editions and with the manuscript. Thomas Noble is author of "George Eliot's scenes of clerical life" and the chronology is by Gordon S. Haight.

Traducida por primera vez al castellano y publicada originalmente en 1879, un año antes de la muerte de la autora, Impresiones de un tal Teofrasto narra las impresiones sociales y filosóficas de un solterón inglés de mediana edad que, al igual que su homólogo griego de la antigüedad, escribe con un tono crítico y burlón sobre sí mismo y sobre los personajes que ha conocido a lo largo de su vida. Pero Eliot no vierte una copia actualizada de los Caracteres de Teofrasto, sino que recurre a un estilo experimental y juguetón que anticipa el Modernismo y convierte al Teofrasto inglés en una parodia de su propio carácter y en una crítica en toda regla de la cultura europea del siglo XIX. Con su habitual inteligencia, haciendo gala de un envidiable acervo cultural, \\\"Impresiones de un tal Teofrasto\\\" ha sido durante años un ensayo relegado del canon de Eliot al quedar ensombrecido por el éxito de sus novelas, pero es la obra en que mejor podemos disfrutar de su fuerte despliegue intelectual.

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