Silas Marner

george eliot

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Genres classicsfictionliteraturehistorical fiction19th centuryvictoriannovelsbritish literatureclassic literatureschool

279 pages, Paperback

First published April 1,1861

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Format: 279 pages, Paperback
Published: May 31, 2006 by Townsend Press
ISBN: 9781591940487
ASIN: 1591940486
Language: English

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About the author

george eliot

Mary Ann Evans, known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She wrote seven novels: Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), Romola (1862–1863), Felix Holt, the Radical (1866), Middlemarch (1871–1872) and Daniel Deronda (1876). Like Charles Dickens and Thomas Hardy, she emerged from provincial England; most of her works are set there. Her works are known for their realism, psychological insight, sense of place and detailed depiction of the countryside.
Middlemarch was described by the novelist Virginia Woolf as "one of the few English novels written for grown-up people" and by Martin Amis and Julian Barnes as the greatest novel in the English language.