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Impressions of Theophrastus Such

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by George Eliot ...

With wit, irony, and painful self-knowledge, this book opens on a solitary bachelor trying to understand how little anyone truly knows himself. He confesses his loneliness, wounded vanity, and failed ambitions, while exposing the social habit of misreading character by appearance, reputation, and outward success. What begins as comic self-mockery becomes a humane study of egoism, self-deception, ... Read more

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With wit, irony, and painful self-knowledge, this book opens on a solitary bachelor trying to understand how little anyone truly knows himself. He confesses his loneliness, wounded vanity, and failed ambitions, while exposing the social habit of misreading character by appearance, reputation, and outward success. What begins as comic self-mockery becomes a humane study of egoism, self-deception,
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George Eliot's Life

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by George Eliot ...

These letters trace a vivid stretch of George Eliot's life, where travel, friendship, and intellectual curiosity move side by side. From France into Spain, she and George Henry Lewes appear as delighted companions, reading, walking, learning Spanish, and absorbing the sea, cities, and landscapes of Biarritz, Granada, Cordova, Seville, Madrid, and beyond. Her letters are full of sharp observation: ... Read more

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These letters trace a vivid stretch of George Eliot's life, where travel, friendship, and intellectual curiosity move side by side. From France into Spain, she and George Henry Lewes appear as delighted companions, reading, walking, learning Spanish, and absorbing the sea, cities, and landscapes of Biarritz, Granada, Cordova, Seville, Madrid, and beyond. Her letters are full of sharp observation:
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George Eliot's Life

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by George Eliot ...

In these pages, George Eliot's private life and public fame unfold together, as Scenes of Clerical Life begins to win readers, publishers, and major literary figures who recognize its warmth, realism, and emotional truth. Letters from Jane Welsh Carlyle, Michael Faraday, Dickens, Thackeray, and J. A. Froude praise the stories as deeply human, even as Eliot remains anxious, guarded, and uncertain ... Read more

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In these pages, George Eliot's private life and public fame unfold together, as Scenes of Clerical Life begins to win readers, publishers, and major literary figures who recognize its warmth, realism, and emotional truth. Letters from Jane Welsh Carlyle, Michael Faraday, Dickens, Thackeray, and J. A. Froude praise the stories as deeply human, even as Eliot remains anxious, guarded, and uncertain
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Harvard Classics

The Five-Foot Shelf of Books

by Aesop, Dante Alighieri, Hans Christian Andersen, Augustine of Hippo, Marcus Aurelius, Jane Austen, Francis Bacon, Honoré de Balzac, Francis Beaumont, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Thomas Browne, Robert Browning, John Bunyan, Edmund Burke, Robert Burns, Lord Byron, Thomas Carlyle, Benvenuto Cellini, Miguel de Cervantes, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Richard Henry Dana Jr., Charles Darwin, Alphonse Daudet, Thomas Dekker, Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoevsky, John Dryden, Charles W. Eliot, George Eliot, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Epictetus, John Fletcher, Theodor Fontane, Benjamin Franklin, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Oliver Goldsmith, Jacob Grimm, Edward Everett Hale, Bret Harte, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Homer, Victor Hugo, Washington Irving, Henry James, Ben Jonson, Gottfried Keller, Thomas à Kempis, Alexander L. Kielland, Martin Luther, Niccolò Machiavelli, Alessandro Manzoni, Christopher Marlowe, Philip Massinger, Guy de Maupassant, John Stuart Mill, John Milton, Thomas More, William Morris, Alfred de Musset, William Allan Neilson, William Penn, Plato, Pliny the Younger, Plutarch, George Sand, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Adam Smith, Laurence Sterne, Theodor Storm, William Makepeace Thackeray, Leo Tolstoy, Ivan Turgenev, Mark Twain, Juan Valera, Virgil, Izaak Walton, John Webster, John Woolman ...

Originally curated by Harvard President Charles W. Eliot as a complete liberal education in fifty volumes, the Harvard Classics gathers philosophy, science, literature, and history into a single indispensable library. Plato's dialogues and Marcus Aurelius's meditations sit alongside Dante's Divine Comedy, Francis Bacon's essays, Charles Darwin's scientific writing, and Benjamin Franklin's ... Read more

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Originally curated by Harvard President Charles W. Eliot as a complete liberal education in fifty volumes, the Harvard Classics gathers philosophy, science, literature, and history into a single indispensable library. Plato's dialogues and Marcus Aurelius's meditations sit alongside Dante's Divine Comedy, Francis Bacon's essays, Charles Darwin's scientific writing, and Benjamin Franklin's
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50 Masterpieces You Have to Read

Volume One - An Essential Library of World Literature

by Louisa May Alcott, Jane Austen, Honoré de Balzac, Henri Barbusse, Anne Brontë, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Samuel Butler, Lewis Carroll, Willa Cather, Miguel de Cervantes, Kate Chopin, John Cleland, Wilkie Collins, Joseph Conrad, Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Alexandre Dumas, George Eliot, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Gustave Flaubert, E. M. Forster, H. Rider Haggard, Thomas Hardy, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Robert Heinlein, Victor Hugo, Aldous Huxley, Henry James, D. H. Lawrence, H. P. Lovecraft, Herman Melville, John Milton, Robert Musil, Vladimir Nabokov, George Orwell, Edgar Allan Poe, Marcel Proust, William Shakespeare, Mary Shelley, Leo Tolstoy ...

Fifty essential works, one sweeping introduction to the world's greatest storytellers. This first volume gathers Jane Austen's social wit, Charles Dickens's unforgettable characters, Fyodor Dostoevsky's psychological depth, Victor Hugo's romantic grandeur, Herman Melville's seafaring epic, and Edgar Allan Poe's dark imagination alongside giants from Cervantes to Tolstoy, the Bronte sisters to ... Read more

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Fifty essential works, one sweeping introduction to the world's greatest storytellers. This first volume gathers Jane Austen's social wit, Charles Dickens's unforgettable characters, Fyodor Dostoevsky's psychological depth, Victor Hugo's romantic grandeur, Herman Melville's seafaring epic, and Edgar Allan Poe's dark imagination alongside giants from Cervantes to Tolstoy, the Bronte sisters to
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Middlemarch

by George Eliot ...

"George Eliot" was the pen-name of Mary Ann Evans, one of the greatest of English novelists of the Victorian era. Her long novel Middlemarch, subtitled A Study of Provincial Life, is generally considered to be her finest work.Published in eight installments between 1871 and 1872, Middlemarch tells the intertwined stories of a variety of people living in the vicinity of the (fictional) midlands ... Read more

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"George Eliot" was the pen-name of Mary Ann Evans, one of the greatest of English novelists of the Victorian era. Her long novel Middlemarch, subtitled A Study of Provincial Life, is generally considered to be her finest work.Published in eight installments between 1871 and 1872, Middlemarch tells the intertwined stories of a variety of people living in the vicinity of the (fictional) midlands
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The Mill on the Floss

by George Eliot ...

Published in 1860, The Mill on the Floss was the second novel published by George Eliot (the pen name of Mary Ann Evans). Set in the late 1820s or early 1830s, it tells the story of two young people, Tom and Maggie Tulliver, from their childhood into early adulthood. Their father, Jeremy Tulliver, owns Dorlcote Mill on the river Floss, and the children grow to adolescence in relative comfort. ... Read more

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Published in 1860, The Mill on the Floss was the second novel published by George Eliot (the pen name of Mary Ann Evans). Set in the late 1820s or early 1830s, it tells the story of two young people, Tom and Maggie Tulliver, from their childhood into early adulthood. Their father, Jeremy Tulliver, owns Dorlcote Mill on the river Floss, and the children grow to adolescence in relative comfort.
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Silas Marner

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In Silas Marner, author George Eliot (the pen name of Mary Ann Evans) introduces an embittered linen weaver who withdraws from society after a betrayal of trust. He retreats to work his loom or count and re-count his accumulated gold and silver. The abrupt theft of his money sends Marner into despair, which is interrupted just as suddenly by the appearance of an abandoned infant on his hearth. ... Read more

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In Silas Marner, author George Eliot (the pen name of Mary Ann Evans) introduces an embittered linen weaver who withdraws from society after a betrayal of trust. He retreats to work his loom or count and re-count his accumulated gold and silver. The abrupt theft of his money sends Marner into despair, which is interrupted just as suddenly by the appearance of an abandoned infant on his hearth.
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50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die vol: 1

by Louisa May Alcott, Jane Austen, Joseph Conrad, D. H. Lawrence, George Eliot, Leo Tolstoy, James Joyce, Charles Dickens, Bram Stoker, Oscar Wilde, Honoré de Balzac, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Anne Brontë, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Lewis Carroll, Willa Cather, Miguel de Cervantes, E. E. Cummings, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Daniel Defoe, Arthur Conan Doyle, Alexandre Dumas, Gustave Flaubert, Henry James, Victor Hugo ...

Discover the timeless stories that have shaped literature across generations. 50 Masterpieces You Have to Read Before You Die Vol. 1 brings together a diverse selection of classic literary works from some of the world's most influential authors. From unforgettable romances and thrilling adventures to haunting mysteries, philosophical works, dramatic stories, and imaginative fiction, this ... Read more

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Discover the timeless stories that have shaped literature across generations. 50 Masterpieces You Have to Read Before You Die Vol. 1 brings together a diverse selection of classic literary works from some of the world's most influential authors. From unforgettable romances and thrilling adventures to haunting mysteries, philosophical works, dramatic stories, and imaginative fiction, this
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50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die vol: 2

by Louisa May Alcott, Jane Austen, Joseph Conrad, D. H. Lawrence, George Eliot, Leo Tolstoy, James Joyce, Charles Dickens, Bram Stoker, Oscar Wilde, Honoré de Balzac, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Anne Brontë, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Lewis Carroll, Willa Cather, Miguel de Cervantes, E. E. Cummings, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Daniel Defoe, Arthur Conan Doyle, Alexandre Dumas, Gustave Flaubert, Henry James, Victor Hugo ...

Continue your journey through the world's most enduring literary masterpieces. 50 Masterpieces You Have to Read Before You Die Vol. 2 brings together another diverse selection of classic works by influential authors from different eras and literary traditions. From romantic stories and dramatic novels to gripping adventures, mysterious tales, philosophical works, and unforgettable explorations of ... Read more

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Continue your journey through the world's most enduring literary masterpieces. 50 Masterpieces You Have to Read Before You Die Vol. 2 brings together another diverse selection of classic works by influential authors from different eras and literary traditions. From romantic stories and dramatic novels to gripping adventures, mysterious tales, philosophical works, and unforgettable explorations of
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Adam Bede

by George Eliot ...

Series series Literary Classics
A village carpenter loves a dairymaid who has been noticed by the young squire, and a Methodist woman preacher sees what is coming before anyone else. George Eliot — Mary Ann Evans, who took a man's name to be read seriously and lived openly with a married man — put her father's Warwickshire into her first novel and made the ordinary rural poor the subject of serious fiction, which nobody had done ... Read more

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A village carpenter loves a dairymaid who has been noticed by the young squire, and a Methodist woman preacher sees what is coming before anyone else. George Eliot — Mary Ann Evans, who took a man's name to be read seriously and lived openly with a married man — put her father's Warwickshire into her first novel and made the ordinary rural poor the subject of serious fiction, which nobody had done
... Read more
Adam Bede

The Illustrated Gift Edition

by George Eliot ...

Series series The Gilded Library
A village carpenter loves a dairymaid who has caught the eye of the young squire, and a Methodist woman preacher sees where it must end. Eliot observes a whole community — workshop, farm, chapel, hall — and lets one act of weakness work through it across a generation. Paintings of pastoral landscape, village workshops and harvest fields accompany this Gilded Library edition; the ornament is a ... Read more

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A village carpenter loves a dairymaid who has caught the eye of the young squire, and a Methodist woman preacher sees where it must end. Eliot observes a whole community — workshop, farm, chapel, hall — and lets one act of weakness work through it across a generation. Paintings of pastoral landscape, village workshops and harvest fields accompany this Gilded Library edition; the ornament is a
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