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Tom and Maggie TulliverGeorge Eliot Tom and Maggie Tulliver Chapter I. TOM MUST GO TO SCHOOL "What I want, you know," said Mr. Tulliver of Dorlcote Mill – "what I want is to give Tom a good eddication. That was what I was thinking of when I gave notice for him to leave th' academy at Lady Day. I ...

The Essays of "George Eliot"George Eliot The Essays of «George Eliot» Complete PREFACE Since the death of George Eliot much public curiosity has been excited by the repeated allusions to, and quotations from, her contributions to periodical literature, and a leading newspaper gives expression to ...

The Mill on the FlossGeorge Eliot The Mill on the Floss Book I Boy and Girl Chapter I Outside Dorlcote Mill A wide plain, where the broadening Floss hurries on between its green banks to the sea, and the loving tide, rushing to meet it, checks its passage with an impetuous embrace. On this mighty...

Penguin Classics presents George Eliots Daniel Deronda, adapted for audio and available as a digital download as part of the Penguin English Library series. Read by the actress Eleanor Bron. What can I do? ... I must get up in the morning and do what every one else does. It is all like a dance se...

RomolaGeorge Eliot Romola Prologue More than three centuries and a half ago, in the mid spring-time of 1492, we are sure that the angel of the dawn, as he travelled with broad slow wing from the Levant to the Pillars of Hercules, and from the summits of the Caucasus across all the snowy Alpine ri...

How Lisa Loved the KingGeorge Eliot How Lisa Loved the King How Lisa loved the King Six hundred years ago, in Dante’s time,Before his cheek was furrowed by deep rhyme;When Europe, fed afresh from Eastern story,Was like a garden tangled with the gloryOf flowers hand-planted and of flowers air-sown...

The Lifted VeilGeorge Eliot The Lifted Veil THE LIFTED VEIL Give me no light, great Heaven, but such as turnsTo energy of human fellowship;No powers beyond the growing heritageThat makes completer manhood. CHAPTER I The time of my end approaches. I have lately been subject to attacks of angina pe...

Brother JacobGeorge Eliot Brother Jacob CHAPTER I Among the many fatalities attending the bloom of young desire, that of blindly taking to the confectionery line has not, perhaps, been sufficiently considered. How is the son of a British yeoman, who has been fed principally on salt pork and yeast...

Impressions of Theophrastus SuchGeorge Eliot Impressions of Theophrastus Such "Suspicione si quis errabit sua,Et rapiet ad se, quod erit commune omnium,Stulte nudabit animi conscientiamHuic excusatum me velim nihilominusNeque enim notare singulos mens est mihi,Verum ipsam vitam et mores hominum o...

George Eliot's brilliant fiction debut contains three stories from the lives of clergymen, with the aim of disclosing the value hidden in the commonplace. &quote;The Sad Fortunes of the Rev. Amos Barton&quote; portrays a character who is hard to like and generally despised-until his suffe...