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Publicada en 1860, inspirada en gran parte de los recuerdos de su vida, se trata de la vida de Maggie, una mujer sensible y sagaz encerrada en un ambiente vulgar y provinciano. Relegada en favor de sus hermanos, pese a ser ella mas inteligente, una historia que encierra una critica certera, a la vez que una obra apasionada.Mujer singular de precoz y sorprendente inteligencia. Su verdadero nombre fue Mary Ann Evans (1819-1880). Figura clave de la Inglaterra victoriana, y una de las intelectuales mas brillantes de su tiempo.

En la peripecia de David Faux (que, de aprendiz de pastelero, aspira a ser un gran personaje en las Indias Occidentales, adonde emigra tras robarle los ahorros a su madre) y de su hermano, el idiota Jacob (que, de pura gratitud, se erige en su imprevista Nemesis), la autora de Middlemarch no es solo capaz de volcar su reconocido talento para la satira de costumbres, sino que acierta a trascenderla por medio de uno de esos dones del que solo gozan las grandes figuras de la literatura: la complejidad de estilo. Esta novelita no es, en fin, solo un cuento moral ameno, recto e hilarante al que se aplican con brillantez los amplios recursos de la tecnica realista: es, sencillamente, toda una leccion del arte de escribir.

Quintaesencia de la novela victoriana, su obra -Mary Ann Evans (1819-1880)- traza con maestría los sutiles vaivenes que rigen los destinos de tres parejas. La ambición, los entimientos y deseos erróneos, el abismo entre lo que se dice y lo que realmente se oculta. Una comunidad retratada en todos sus aspectos, en epoca de prfundos cambios.

Wrongly accused of theft and exiled from a religious community many years before, the embittered weaver Silas Marner lives alone in Raveloe, living only for work and his precious hoard of money. But when his money is stolen and an orphaned child finds her way into his house, Silas is given the chance to transform his life. His fate, and that of the little girl he adopts, is entwined with Godfrey Cass, son of the village Squire, who, like Silas, is trapped by his past. Silas Marner, George Eliot's favourite of her novels, combines humour, rich symbolism and pointed social criticism to create an unsentimental but affectionate portrait of rural life.

Brought up at Dorlcote Mill, Maggie Tulliver worships her brother Tom and is desperate to win the approval of her parents, but her passionate, wayward nature and her fierce intelligence bring her into constant conflict with her family. As she reaches adulthood, the clash between their expectations and her desires is painfully played out as she finds herself torn between her relationships with three very different men: her proud and stubborn brother, a close friend who is also the son of her family's worst enemy, and a charismatic but dangerous suitor. With its poignant portrayal of sibling relationships, The Mill on the Floss is considered George Eliot's most autobiographical novel; it is also one of her most powerful and moving.

Daniel Deronda, raised by Gentiles, discovers the truth about his heritage and seeks his Jewish roots, finding that Judaism--and, particularly, Zionism--gives meaning to his life. Daniel's story intersects with that of the beautiful and spoiled Gwendolyn Harleth, who marries the jaded, depraved aristocrat Grandcourt and lives to repent her bad judgment. As the novel's moral center, Daniel provides a role model for Gwendolyn and, eventually, becomes a revered leader of the Zionist movement. DANIEL DERONDA, first published in 1876, is remarkable for its sympathetic and closely observed portrait of its Jewish characters--unusual in the Victorian period, when Jews were routinely vilified or caricatured in fiction. But it is also a deeply intelligent novel that explores two vastly different worlds with subtle acuity, whether the plot takes it to the ascetic study of a Jewish scholar or to the casinos where Gwendolyn routinely gambles away her money. The main characters' two remarkable journeys--Daniel's back to the religion of his people, and Gwendolyn's from selfishness to wisdom--are parallel quests toward what is always Eliot's true subject: the progress of the mind and the heart toward self-discovery, a preoccupation that was more characteristic of modernist fiction than of the novels being written in the mid-19th century.

Inspirada en gran parte en los recuerdos de la infancia de la autora, El molino del Floss gira en torno al desigual destino de Tom y Maggie Tulliver, los hijos del molinero. A pesar de la inteligencia natural deMaggie, es Tom, por ser varón, quien recibe la educación y en quien el padre de ambos confía para hacer frente al futuro del molino. Cuando los niños se acercan a la juventud la desgracia económica cae sobrelos Tulliver, y los hermanos se ven obligados a enfrentarse a las dificultades. Maggie, alter ego de Eliot, es uno de los personajes más fascinantes de toda su producción, una mujer sensible y apasionadaencerrada en un ambiente vulgar, monótono y, con frecuencia, ruín.A pesar del patetismo progresivo de la novela, un fino humor, altamente crítico, está siempre presente. Considerada, después de Middlemarch (1871-1872), la mejor obra de Eliot, El molino del Floss refleja aligual que ésta, a través de los conflictos morales de sus personajes, la preocupación metafísica de la autora.

Georges Eliot, de son vrai nom Mary Ann Evans, est avec Dickens et Thackeray le plus grand romancier anglais du XIXe siècle, le chef de file de cette lignée superbe de femmes écrivains qui illustrère

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.

Two novellas whose treatment of moral weakness provides a dark counterpoint to the warm humanism of Eliot's novels. The Lifted Veil is the story of Latimer, a man who has the power of prevision and the ability to read the minds of others. His brother's fiancée, Bertha, is the one person whose mind remains closed to him. When his brother dies and they marry, he is suddenly able to see her murderous intentions. The protagonist of Brother Jacob is David Faux, a man driven by self-interest and greed to create a false life for himself as a confectioner in Jamaica. Jacob, his idiot brother, proves to be his nemesis.

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