With precise plotting underpinned by a wise understanding of human nature, George Eliot's most autobiographical novel gives a...

Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved...

Although the shortest of George Eliot's novels, Silas Marner is one of her most admired and loved works. It tells the sad story...

Middlemarch is a complex tale of idealism, disillusion, profligacy, loyalty and frustrated love. This penetrating analysis of the...

George Eliot's final novel, Daniel Deronda (1876), follows the intertwining lives of the beautiful but spoiled and selfish...

Our consciousness rarely registers the beginning of a growth within us any more than without us: there have been many...

In Middlemarch, in the heart of England, Dorothea wants to change the world and Dr Lydgate hopes to make great scientific...