Middlemarch / George Eliot

Livre | Eliot, George (1819-1880). Auteur | 2019

The greatest 'state of the nation' novel in English, Middlemarch addresses ordinary life at a moment of great social change, in the years leading to the Reform Act of 1832. Through her portrait of a Midlands town, George Eliot addresses gender relations and class, self-knowledge and self-delusion, community and individualism. Eliot follows the fortunes of the town's central characters as they find, lose, and rediscover ideals and vocations in the world. Through its psychologically rich portraits, the novel contains some of the great characters of literature, including the idealistic but naive Dorothea Brooke, beautiful and egotistical Rosamund Vincy, the dry scholar Edward Casaubon, the wise and grounded Mary Garth, and the brilliant but proud Dr Lydgate. In its whole view of a society, the novel offers enduring insight into the pains and pleasures of life with others, and explores nearly every subject of concern to modern life: art, religion, science, politics, self, society, and, above all, human relationships.

Le moulin sur la Floss / George Eliot

Livre | Eliot, George (1819-1880). Auteur | 2021

Ce roman, paru en 1860, traite des amours contrariés d'une jeune femme, amoureuse d'un infirme puis du fiancé de sa cousine mais qui réussit à suivre la voie du devoir, et de l'amour tragique entre elle et son frère qui par son intransigeance et son sens de l'honneur exagéré, a fait le malheur de sa soeur.

Silas Marner / George Elliot

Livre | Eliot, George (1819-1880). Auteur