Adam Bede – to największe arcydzieło George Elliot, niewątpliwie jej najlepsza i najbardziej charakterystyczna powieść. To jeden z nieśmiertelnych klasyków literatury.
Angielska prowincja, życie prostych farmerów, ich codzienne zmagania z przyrodą, ich codzienne smutki i troski oraz czysta miłość, która prowadzi do więzienia. Wspaniale opisane realia początku XIX wieku, bo też właśnie realistyczna była wówczas angielska literatura, ale Adam Bede to jeszcze silniej i dobitniej podkreśla. Przesłanie autorki niesie się na kartach:
„Szanuję, czczę piękne kształty, ale kocham nade wszystko to drugie piękno, którego tajemnica nie kryje się w proporcjach, ale w głębokiej sympatii. Malujcie aniołów, jeśli możecie, malujcie Madonnę z łagodną twarzą, otwierającą ramiona dla przyjęcia chwały niebios, ale nie stawiajcie estetycznych prawideł, które chcą wygnać z dziedziny sztuki te baby skrobiące spracowanymi rękami jarzyny, tych ciężkich, rozbawionych chłopów w ciemnej szynkowni, tych zgarbionych ramion, tych twarzy osmalonych wiatrem ludzi, co wykonują najcięższe prace — i tych wnętrz domostw, gdzie na półkach błyszczy cynowe naczynie, gdzie stoją ciemne dzbany, gdzie leży prosty kundel, u pułapu zwieszają się girlandy cebul. Na świecie tyle jest podobnych domostw i ludzi niemających wcale malowniczej nędzy. Niechże przypomina ich nam sztuka, odtwarzajmy wiernie radość i smutki powszedniego życia”.
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Czas trwania 25:19 W dziedziczonym z pokolenia na pokolenie młynie Dorclote mieszkają Madzia i Tomek Tulliverowie. Inteligencja, uroda i żywiołowy charakter dziewczynki niepokoją jej matkę i wywołują rodzinne spięcia. Dorasta w purytańskim środowisku, ale zapowiada się na niezależnie myślącą młodą kobietę. Jednak, nawet wspierający i czuły ojciec, nie rozumie jej pragnień i uznaje, że z racji płci, tylko twardo stąpającemu po ziemi synowi, przysługuje staranna edukacja.Nieoczekiwanie rodzinę dopada głęboki kryzys, a ojcu grozi bankructwo. Sytuacja komplikuje się jeszcze bardziej, gdy w sercu dziewczyny wybucha namiętne uczucie do nieodpowiedniego mężczyzny...Czy uda się uniknąć katastrofy i zapobiec rozpadowi skonfliktowanej rodziny?Czy lepiej być wierną zakłamanym konwenansom, czy zawalczyć o swoje szczęście wychodząc poza horyzont sztywnych norm społecznych?George Eliot, a właściwie Mary Ann Evans czołowa twórczyni epoki wiktoriańskiej, nazwana przez krytykę angielską pierwszą współczesną angielską powieściopisarką. Najczęściej cytowana w słowniku języka angielskiego Oxford English Dictionary kobieta pisarka.Napisany z ogromną pasją Młyn nad Flossą uznano za najlepszą i najbardziej osobistą z jej powieści. Autorka oparła ją na wątkach autobiograficznych i wspaniale odmalowała w niej obraz angielskiej prowincji w XIX w._Na podstawie książki zrealizowano filmy oraz serial.
Although the shortest of George Eliot's novels, Silas Marner is one of her most admired and loved works. It tells the sad story of the unjustly exiled Silas Marner - a handloom linen weaver of Raveloe in the agricultural heartland of England - and how he is restored to life by the unlikely means of the orphan child Eppie.
Silas Marner is a tender and moving tale of sin and repentance set in a vanished rural world and holds the reader's attention until the last page as Eppie's bonds of affection for Silas are put to the test.
Part of the Chiltern Classics rangeSilas 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 Raveloe and takes up the profession as a weaver.
The only happiness he gets from his solitary life is with the gold he has acquired by working sixteen hours a day. His reclusive and depressive attitude has driven away most of the villagers. Chiltern are publishers of exquisitely crafted editions of the world’s finest classic literature.
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Often called the greatest nineteenth-century British novelist, George Eliot (the pen name of Mary Ann Evans) created in Middlemarch a vast panorama of life in a provincial Midlands town. At the story’s center stands the intellectual and idealistic Dorothea Brooke—a character who in many ways resembles Eliot herself. But the very qualities that set Dorothea apart from the materialistic, mean-spirited society around her also lead her into a disastrous marriage with a man she mistakes for her soul mate. In a parallel story, young doctor Tertius Lydgate, who is equally idealistic, falls in love with the pretty but vain and superficial Rosamund Vincy, whom he marries to his ruin.
Eliot surrounds her main figures with a gallery of characters drawn from every social class, from laborers and shopkeepers to the rising middle class to members of the wealthy, landed gentry. Together they form an extraordinarily rich and precisely detailed portrait of English provincial life in the 1830s. But Dorothea’s and Lydgate’s struggles to retain their moral integrity in the midst of temptation and tragedy remind us that their world is very much like our own. Strikingly modern in its painful ironies and psychological insight, Middlemarch was pivotal in the shaping of twentieth-century literary realism.
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The Mill on the Floss, a Level 4 Reader, is A2+ in the CEFR framework. The text is made up of sentences with up to three clauses, introducing more complex uses of present perfect simple, passives, phrasal verbs and simple relative clauses. It is well supported by illustrations, which appear regularly.
Wrongly accused of theft and exiled from a religious community many years before, the embittered weaver Silas Marner lives alone in Raveloe, living only for work and his precious hoard of money. But when his money is stolen and an orphaned child finds her way into his house, Silas is given the chance to transform his life. His fate, and that of the little girl he adopts, is entwined with Godfrey Cass, son of the village Squire, who, like Silas, is trapped by his past. Silas Marner, George Eliot's favourite of her novels, combines humour, rich symbolism and pointed social criticism to create an unsentimental but affectionate portrait of rural life.
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 alienated Daniel Deronda, as they search for personal and vocational fulfilment and sympathetic relationship.
Set largely in the degenerate English aristocratic society of the 1860s, Daniel Deronda charts their search for meaningful lives against a background of imperialism, the oppression of women, and racial and religious prejudice. Gwendolen's attempts to escape a sadistic relationship and atone for past actions catalyse her friendship with Deronda, while his search for origins leads him, via Judaism, to a quest for moral growth.
Eliot's radical dual narrative constantly challenges all solutions and ensures that the novel is as controversial now, as when it first appeared.
'Examine your words well, and you will find that even when you have no motive to be false, it is a very hard thing to say the exact truth, even about your immediate feelings...'
Adam Bede (1859), George Eliot's first full-length novel, marked the emergence of an artist to rank with Scott and Dickens. Set in the English Midlands of farmers and village craftsmen at the turn of the eighteenth century, the book relates a story of seduction issuing in 'the inward suffering which is the worst form of Nemesis'. But it is also a rich and pioneering record - drawing on intimate knowledge and affectionate memory - of a rural world that we have lost.
The movement of the narration between social realism and reflection on its own processes, the exploration of motives, and the constant authorial presence all bespeak an art that strives to connect the fictional with the actual.
In this dark novella of Victorian horror, George Eliot explores clairvoyance, fate and the possibility of life after death.
One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives readers a taste of the Classics' huge range and diversity, with works from around the world and across the centuries - including fables, decadence, heartbreak, tall tales, satire, ghosts, battles and elephants.
This novel, based on George Eliot's own experiences of provincial life, is a masterpiece of ambiguity in which moral choice is subjected to the hypocrisy of the Victorian age.
As the headstrong Maggie Tulliver grows into womanhood, the deep love which she has for her brother Tom turns into conflict, because she cannot reconcile his bourgeois standards with her own lively intelligence. Maggie is unable to adapt to her community or break free from it, and the result, on more than one level, is tragedy.
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 lives of Dorothea Brooke and Dr Tertius Lydgate and includes a host of other paradigm characters who illuminate the condition of English life in the mid-nineteenth century.
Henry James described Middlemarch as a ‘treasurehouse of detail’ while Virginia Woolf famously endorsed George Eliot’s masterpiece as ‘one of the few English novels written for grown-up people.
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