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George Eliot

Born

in Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England, The United Kingdom

November 22, 1819

Died

December 22, 1880

Genre

Literature & Fiction, Poetry, Journalism

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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 ...more

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	Middlemarch 4.04 avg rating — 180,988 ratings — published 1872 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Silas Marner 3.70 avg rating — 94,420 ratings — published 1861 — 3766 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Mill on the Floss 3.84 avg rating — 59,485 ratings — published 1860 — 2477 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Daniel Deronda by George Eliot, Edmund White (Introduction) 3.87 avg rating — 26,960 ratings — published 1876 — 876 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Adam Bede 3.83 avg rating — 26,542 ratings — published 1859	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Lifted Veil 3.40 avg rating — 5,497 ratings — published 1859 — 1074 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Romola 3.77 avg rating — 4,821 ratings — published 1863 — 1152 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Felix Holt: The Radical by George Eliot, Lynda Mugglestone (Editor) 3.72 avg rating — 4,372 ratings — published 1866 — 460 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Scenes of Clerical Life by George Eliot, Thomas A. Noble (Editor) 3.80 avg rating — 3,272 ratings — published 1857 — 451 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Silas Marner and Two Short Stories 3.95 avg rating — 984 ratings — published 1861 — 51 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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3.78 avg rating — 117 ratings

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2016 2nd Quarter Long Read

1831, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo, 614 pages

40 votes, 22.7%

1880, The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 776 pages

30 votes, 17.0%

1853, Bleak House by Charles Dickens, 1032 pages

30 votes, 17.0%

900, The Arabian Nights, 1049 pages

17 votes, 9.7%

1920, Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset, 1168 pages

13 votes, 7.4%

1989, The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett, 973 pages

10 votes, 5.7%

1965, The Magus by John Fowles, 656 pages

8 votes, 4.5%

440 BC, The Histories by Herodotus, 716 pages

7 votes, 4.0%

1901, The Wings of the Dove by Henry James, 741 pages

5 votes, 2.8%

1997, Underworld by Don DeLillo, 832 pages

5 votes, 2.8%

1987, The Shell Seekers by Rosamunde Pilcher, 656 pages

3 votes, 1.7%

1863, Bulfinch's Mythology by Thomas Bulfinch, 862 pages

3 votes, 1.7%

1976, Roots: The Saga of an American Family by Alex Haley, 729 pages

3 votes, 1.7%

1876, Daniel Deronda by George Eliot, 796 pages

2 votes, 1.1%

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