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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

4.03 avg rating — 176,173 ratings — published 1872 — 2502 editions
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Silas Marner

3.69 avg rating — 92,407 ratings — published 1861 — 3858 editions
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The Mill on the Floss

3.83 avg rating — 58,347 ratings — published 1860 — 55 editions
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Daniel Deronda

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3.86 avg rating — 26,677 ratings — published 1876 — 871 editions
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Adam Bede

3.83 avg rating — 26,226 ratings — published 1859 — 10 editions
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Romola

3.76 avg rating — 4,733 ratings — published 1863 — 1157 editions
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The Lifted Veil

3.40 avg rating — 5,172 ratings — published 1859 — 620 editions
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Felix Holt: The Radical

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3.71 avg rating — 4,307 ratings — published 1866 — 461 editions
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Scenes of Clerical Life

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3.80 avg rating — 3,217 ratings — published 1857 — 434 editions
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3.95 avg rating — 969 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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May 2020 Poll for Revisit the Shelf Book

Mansfield Park by Jane Austen (pub. 1814 pp. 507, last read Jan 2012)
 
  82 votes, 24.8%


The Master and Margarita
by Bulgakov M. (pub 1967, pp. 335, last read June 2016)
 
  65 votes, 19.7%

The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco (pub. 1980 pp. 536, last read June 2016)
 
  51 votes, 15.5%

If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino (pub. 1979 pp. 260, last read Feb . 2018)
 
  50 votes, 15.2%

Silas Marner by George Eliot ( pub. 1861, pp. 262 last read May 2018)
 
  37 votes, 11.2%

Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson (pub. 1994 pp. 460, last read Feb. 2013)
 
  25 votes, 7.6%

Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin (pub. 1833 pp. 240
 
  20 votes, 6.1%

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