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Adam Bede – to największe arcydzieło George Elliot, niewątpliwie jej najlepsza i najbardziej charakterystyczna powieść. To jeden z nieśmiertelnych klasyków literatury.Angielska prowincja, życie prostych farmerów, ich codzienne zmagania z przyrodą, ich codzienne smutki i troski oraz czysta miłość, która prowadzi do więzienia. Wspaniale opisane realia początku XIX wieku, bo też właśnie realistyczna była wówczas angielska literatura, ale Adam Bede to jeszcze silniej i dobitniej ...

Oparta na wątkach autobiograficznych historia niezwykłej dziewczyny, która swą wyjątkowość, wrażliwość i inteligencję przypłaciła tragicznym konfliktem z otoczeniem: purytańską społecznością prowincjonalnego miasteczka. Przez większość krytyków powieść uznana została za jedno z największych osiągnięć George Eliot, szczególnie ze względu na wspaniały obraz angielskiej prowincji w XIX w.Madzia i Tomek Tulliverowie mieszkają wraz z rodzicami w młynie Dorlcote, od pięciu pokoleń ...

During a period of illness, Latimer first discovers he is able to read other peoples’ minds and see visions of the future. Rather than being a gift, this strange phenomenon increasingly becomes a curse. But the one thing that keeps him going is his love for Bertha. But everything changes when Latimer finally does gain sporadic insight into Bertha’s mind... and finds her thoughts are much more sinister than he had anticipated... In this dark novella George Eliot explores clair...

Penned by George Eliot, „Romola” is an intense, gripping historical novel set in 15th-century Italy. In the narrative, Tito, a handsome but scheming Greek opportunist, marries Romola, the daughter of a scholar. He deceives Romola, is unscrupulous in his political dealings, and is finally killed by his adoptive father. Romola finds strength in helping to care for Tito’s other wife and the children of that union. A true classic!

Set during the time of the Reform Act of 1832, the story centers on an election contested by Harold Transome, a local landowner, in the „Radical cause”, contrary to his family’s Tory traditions. Contrasting with the opportunism of Transome is the sincere, but opinionated, Radical Felix Holt. Against this background, the author George Eliot tells a love story and weaves a plot which has many elements of the sensation novel, such as illegitimacy, blackmail, and the discovery of...

Crushed by a loveless marriage to the cruel and arrogant Grandcourt, Gwendolen Harleth seeks salvation in the deeply spiritual and altruistic Daniel Deronda. But Deronda, profoundly affected by the discovery of his Jewish ancestry, is ultimately too committed to his own cultural awakening to save Gwendolen from despair. George Eliot’s radical dual narrative constantly challenges all solutions and ensures that the novel is as controversial now, as when it first appeared....

First published in 1860, „Brother Jacob” is a short story about deception, imperial venture, and self-interest by George Eliot in which she explores the relationship between the selfish, self-centered, and ambitious David Faux and his simple-hearted and naif brother, Jacob. It is Eliot’s literary homage to Thackeray, a satirical modern fable that draws telling parallels between eating and reading.

Burzliwe losy miłosnego czworokąta w małej angielskiej wiosce. Hetty Sorrel to urocza, choć jeszcze dość naiwna dziewczyna, która staje się obiektem uczuć tytułowego Adama oraz ponętnego (i majętnego!) kapitana Arthura. W relacje między bohaterami miesza się dodatkowo Dinah - piękna i zaangażowana religijnie kuzynka Hetty. Mężczyźni decydują się stoczyć pojedynek, w efekcie którego jeden z rywali odstępuje od swych matrymonialnych zamiarów. I gdy wydaje się, że miłosny konfli...

If you had to choose between the love of a lifetime and your relationship with your family, who would you pick? In „The Mill on the Floss” by George Eliot, the author draws on her own experiences when writing the tale of the complicated relationship between a young woman Maggie and her brother Tom Tulliver during a time when women had limited choices. Maggie’s often tormented battle to do her duty and belong on the one hand, and to be herself, wild and natural on the other,...

Set in the fictitious Midlands town of Middlemarch during 1829–32, and widely considered the greatest of Victorian novels. It comprises several distinct (though intersecting) stories and a large cast of characters: Dorothea Brooke, the heroine, idealistic but naive; Rosamond Vincy, beautiful and egoistic: Edward Casaubon, the dry-as-dust scholar: Tertius Lydgate, the brilliant but morally-flawed physician: the passionate artist Will Ladislaw: and Fred Vincy and Mary Garth, ...

George Eliot’s (the pen name of Mary Ann Evans) first full-length novel, „Adam Bede” paints a powerful portrait of rural life, seduction, faith, self-deception and redemption. First published in 1859, this innovative novel carried its readers back sixty years to a time of impending change for England and the wider world. The story follows the rural lives in the fictional community of Hayslope – a rural, pastoral and close-knit community in 1799. Adam Bede is a carpenter who...

Although the shortest of George Eliot’s novels „Silas Marner” is a cherished masterwork and a moving story of redemption by the one of the Victorian era’s most accomplished novelists. Published in 1861, the author charts the life of the cataleptic, miserly weaver Silas Marner. Arriving in insular Raveloe after a wrongful expulsion from his Calvinist community in the north, Silas is a foreign and outcast figure, left alone to accumulate a useless fortune through his loom in ...