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George Eliot


Born
in Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England, The United Kingdom
November 22, 1819

Died
December 22, 1880

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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 t
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Middlemarch

4.04 avg rating — 180,866 ratings — published 1872 — 2462 editions
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Silas Marner

3.69 avg rating — 94,375 ratings — published 1861 — 3916 editions
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The Mill on the Floss

3.84 avg rating — 59,460 ratings — published 1860 — 2477 editions
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Adam Bede

3.83 avg rating — 26,538 ratings — published 1859 — 1029 editions
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The Lifted Veil

3.40 avg rating — 5,493 ratings — published 1859 — 1075 editions
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Romola

3.77 avg rating — 4,818 ratings — published 1863 — 1152 editions
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Felix Holt: The Radical

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Scenes of Clerical Life

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3.80 avg rating — 3,271 ratings — published 1857 — 452 editions
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3.95 avg rating — 984 ratings — published 1861 — 51 editions
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Quotes by George Eliot  (?)
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“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
George Eliot

“What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?”
George Eliot

“Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.”
George Eliot, Impressions of Theophrastus Such

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June 2018 Old School Poll

The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot 1860, 579 pages
 
  96 votes, 30.1%

Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev 1862, 244 pages
 
  77 votes, 24.1%

Hunger by Knut Hamsun 1890, 134 pages
 
  60 votes, 18.8%

 
  60 votes, 18.8%

The Golden Ass by Apuleius 158 AD, 256 pages
 
  26 votes, 8.2%

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