Author:George Eliot

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George Eliot
(1819–1880)

Mary Ann Evans (or Marian Evans), English novelist, wrote under this pseudonym. She is the author of seven novels, including Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), Middlemarch (1871–72), and Daniel Deronda (1876), most of them set in provincial England and known for their realism and psychological insight
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George Eliot


Works

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Novels

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  • Adam Bede (First Edition) (1859)
    • Fourth Edition - author's revisions confined to the willow wand passage in Chapter IV.
    • Eighth Edition corrected by the Author
    • A New Edition printed from the plates of the Tenth Edition (corrected Eighth Edition) with substantial revisions including a rewritten Chapter 17 (transcription project)
    • Cabinet Edition (1878) - The Cabinet edition is the standard for quotations, the last George Eliot reviewed and approved prior to her death in 1880.
  • The Mill on the Floss (1860)
    • First book edition (transcription volumes: 1, 2, 3)
    • Second edition (2 volumes 1860) - George Eliot did not contribute to the publication of this edition.
    • Third edition (1862) - Base Text for Clarendon Edition, plates used for the 1867 illustrated edition.
    • Fourth or Cabinet edition (1878) - The Cabinet edition is the standard for quotations, the last George Eliot reviewed and approved prior to her death in 1880.
  • Silas Marner (1861)
  • Romola (1863)
  • Felix Holt, the Radical (1866)
  • Middlemarch: a Study in Provincial Life (1871-1872)
  • Daniel Deronda (1876) (transcription volumes: 1, 2, 3, 4)

Novellas and short stories

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Poetry

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Poetry compilations
  • The Legend of Jubal and Other Poems, 1874 IA
  • The poems of George Eliot ed. Rands, William Brighty (1884) (transcription project)
  • Poems, together with Brother Jacob and The lifted veil (1885) IA
  • Complete poetical works (1888) (transcription project)

Essays

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Essay compilations

Translations

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Other works

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Works about Eliot

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Books

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Encyclopedia articles

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On her works

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Some or all works by this author were published before January 1, 1929, and are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.

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