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George Eliot

Forfatterbiografi

George Eliot er det litterære pseudonym for Mary Ann Evans, en engelsk forfatter født 22. november 1819 og død 22. december 1880. Hun regnes som en af de førende stemmer i den victorianske romantradition og arbejdede som både romanforfatter, poet, journalist og oversætter. Under navnet George Eliot skrev hun realistiske værker, der ofte kombinerer psykologisk skarpsindighed med social iagttagelse. Hendes gennembrud kom med romanerne Adam Bede (1859) og The Mill on the Floss (1860), efterfulgt af blandt andet Silas Marner (1861). Hun nåede et af højdepunkterne med Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life, som udkom i 1871-72 og almindeligvis beskrives som et mesterværk for sin bredde i skildringen af menneskers livsvilkår og valg. Eliots betydning for litteraturen ligger især i den måde, hun opbygger troværdige karakterer og lader moralske og sociale konsekvenser udfolde sig over tid. Hun blev publiceret i romanform gennem hele 1800-tallets midte og senfase og fastholdt en klar ambition om at skrive for voksne læsere om komplekse erfaringer, ambitioner og nederlag. Hun er derfor fortsat central i verdenslitteraturen, særligt for studiet af realistisk prosa og victoriansk romanhistorie.

Bøger af George Eliot

'Silas Marner'
'Silas Marner'

Bog | Engelsk

HarperCollins is proud to present our range of timeless literary classics. Our consciousness rarely registers the beginning of a growth within us any more than without us: there have been many circulations of the sap before we detect the smallest sign of

'Daniel Deronda'
'Daniel Deronda'

Bog | Engelsk

With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Carole Jones, freelance writer and researcher. George Eliot's final novel, Daniel Deronda (1876), follows the intertwining lives of the beautiful but spoiled and selfish Gwendolene Harleth and the selfless yet alie

'Silas Marner'
'Silas Marner'

Bog | Engelsk

Gold! - his own gold - brought back to him as mysteriously as it had been taken away! Falsely accused of theft, Silas Marner is cut off from his community but finds refuge in the village of Raveloe, where he is eyed with distant suspicion. Like a spider f

'The Mill on the Floss'
'The Mill on the Floss'

Bog | Engelsk

Raised in the idyllic setting of Dorlcote Mill, the wild and wilful Maggie Tulliver adores her elder brother Tom and is forever trying to gain the approbation of her parents. Yet, as she grows older and the family struggle under the weight of severe pecun

'Silas Marner'
'Silas Marner'

Bog | Engelsk

Having been accused of theft and hounded out of a religious community many years previously, the weaver Silas Marner now lives alone in the village of Raveloe, hoarding the precious wealth he earns. But when Silass beloved gold is stolen, and an orphaned

Silas Marner
Silas Marner

Bog | Engelsk

George Eliot's tale of a solitary miser gradually redeemed by the joy of fatherhood, Silas Marner is edited with an introduction and notes by David Carroll in Penguin Classics. Wrongly accused of theft and exiled from a religious community many years

'Silas Marner'
'Silas Marner'

Lydbog | Engelsk

The story of weaver Silas Marner, wrongly cast out of his religious community, who finds a reason for living when, one winter night, a little girl wanders into his cottage out of the snow. Our consciousness rarely registers the beginning of a growth withi

'Middlemarch'
'Middlemarch'

Bog | Engelsk

'the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts' 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 1

'The Lifted Veil'
'The Lifted Veil'

Bog | Engelsk

The tale of a man who is incapacitated by visions of the future and the cacophony of overheard thoughts, and yet who can't help trying to subvert his vividly glimpsed destiny, it is easy to read The Lifted Veil as being autobiographically revealing-of

'Middlemarch'
'Middlemarch'

Bog | Engelsk

The most ambitious narrative of nineteenth-century realism, Middlemarch tells the story of an entire town in the years leading up to the Reform Bill of 1832, a time when modern methods were starting to challenge old orthodoxies. Eliots sophisticated and a

'Middlemarch'
'Middlemarch'

Bog | Engelsk

One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World'. HarperCollins is proud to present our range of timeless literary classics. People glorify all sorts of bravery except the bravery they might show on behalf of their nearest neighbours Reject

'The Mill on the Floss'
'The Mill on the Floss'

Bog | Engelsk

Drawing on George Eliot's own childhood experiences to craft an unforgettable story of first love, sibling rivalry and regret, The Mill on the Floss is edited with an introduction and notes by A.S. Byatt, author of Possession , in Penguin Classics. Br

'Middlemarch (Collector's Edition)'
'Middlemarch (Collector's Edition)'

Bog | Engelsk

Middlemarch is a complex tale of idealism, disillusion, profligacy, loyalty and frustrated love. This penetrating analysis of the life of an English provincial town during the time of social unrest prior to the Reform Bill of 1832 is told through the live

'Daniel Deronda'
'Daniel Deronda'

Bog | Engelsk

As Daniel Deronda opens, Gwendolen Harleth is poised at the roulette-table, prepared to throw away her family fortune. She is observed by Daniel Deronda, a young man groomed in the finest tradition of the English upper-classes. And while Gwendolen loses e

'Romola'
'Romola'

Bog | Engelsk

One of George Eliot's most ambitious and imaginative novels, Romola is set in Renaissance Florence during the turbulent years following the expulsion of the powerful Medici family during which the zealous religious reformer Savonarola rose to control

'The Mill on the Floss'
'The Mill on the Floss'

Bog | Engelsk

The Penguin English Library Edition of The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot If life had no love in it, what else was there for Maggie? Tragic and moving, The Mill on the Floss is a novel of grand passions and tormented lives. As the rebellious Maggie&#39

'Middlemarch'
'Middlemarch'

Bog | Engelsk

One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World' The Penguin English Library Edition of Middlemarch by George Eliot 'She did not know then that it was Love who had come to her briefly as in a dream before awaking, with the hues of morni

'Middlemarch'
'Middlemarch'

Bog | Engelsk

One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World' 'One of the few English novels written for grown-up people' Virginia Woolf George Eliot's nuanced and moving novel is a masterly evocation of connected lives, changing fortunes an

'Adam Bede'
'Adam Bede'

Bog | Engelsk

Carpenter Adam Bede is in love with the beautiful Hetty Sorrel, but unknown to him, he has a rival, in the local squires son Arthur Donnithorne. Hetty is soon attracted by Arthurs seductive charm and they begin to meet in secret. The relationship is to ha

'Scenes of Clerical Life'
'Scenes of Clerical Life'

Bog | Engelsk

George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) made her fictional debut when SCENES OF CLERICAL LIFE appeared in 'Blackwood's Magazine' in 1857. These stories contain Eliot's earliest studies of what became enduring themes in her great novels: the impact o

The Mill on the Floss
The Mill on the Floss

Bog | Engelsk

With precise plotting underpinned by a wise understanding of human nature, George Eliots most autobiographical novel gives a wonderful evocation of rural life and the complicated relationship between siblings. Part of the Macmillan Collectors Library; a s

'The Middlemarch Trilogy'
'The Middlemarch Trilogy'

Bog | Engelsk

Three plays based on George Eliot's classic novel, which can be performed as a trilogy or as standalone pieces. George Eliot's Middlemarch is peopled with some of literature's most memorable characters. In Geoffrey Beevers' dramatisation,

'Middlemarch'
'Middlemarch'

Bog | Engelsk

Considered one the masterpieces of realist fiction, George Eliot's novel, Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life , explores a fictional nineteenth-century Midlands town in the midst of modern changes. The quiet drama of ordinary lives and flawed choi

'The Mill On The Floss'
'The Mill On The Floss'

Bog | Engelsk

From the author of MIDDLEMARCH and SILAS MARNER, a story of frustrated intelligence and longing, featuring the intelligent Maggie, who yearns to be loved, and her brother Tom, who is forced to study. When Maggie is cast out by Tom, she is ostracized by so

'Middlemarch'
'Middlemarch'

Bog | Engelsk

Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life, published 1871-2, is set in the imaginary county of Loamshire during the years of unrest preceding the 1832 Reform Bill. With its complex plot, broad canvas and huge cast of characters, it has long been recognized

'The Mill on the Floss'
'The Mill on the Floss'

Bog | Engelsk

The novel details the lives of Tom and Maggie Tulliver, a brother and sister growing up on the River Floss near the village of St. Ogg's in the United Kingdom. The book is fictional autobiography in part, reflecting the disgrace that George Eliot (Mar

'Middlemarch'
'Middlemarch'

Bog | Engelsk

Dorothea Brooke longs to do good, but marriage, ambition and provincial gossip test her every intention. This Vintage Classics 150th anniversary gift edition, with an introduction by Zadie Smith, celebrates one of the most admired novels in English litera

'Silas Marner'
'Silas Marner'

Bog | Engelsk

Part of the Chiltern Classics range Silas Marner tells the story about a weaver and how his life changes. The story begins with Silas, who has been displaced from his former home after being falsely accused of stealing money from his chapel. He settles in

'Middlemarch'
'Middlemarch'

Bog | Dansk

Middlemarch er hovedværket i George Eliots forfatterskab. Den psykologiske indsigt i romanens karakterer og deres motiver gør romanen lige så medrivende i dag, som dengang den blev skrevet. Middlemarch er en typisk engelsk provinsby. Den danner den trygge

'Middlemarch'
'Middlemarch'

Bog | Engelsk

One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World' 'One of the few English novels written for grown-up people' Virginia Woolf George Eliot's nuanced and moving novel is a masterly evocation of connected lives, changing fortunes an

'Middlemarch'
'Middlemarch'

Bog | Engelsk

Middlemarch by George Eliot is a profound exploration of 19th-century English provincial life, intricately weaving together the destinies of diverse characters. This epic novel delves into the complexities of human relationships, societal expectations, an