George Eliot, pseudonyme de Mary Ann Evans (1819-1880), est l'une des plus grandes romancières victoriennes, reconnue pour sa profondeur psychologique et son réalisme social incomparable. Ce recueil rassemble l'ensemble de son œuvre majeure, incluant Middlemarch, souvent considéré comme l'un des plus grands romans de la langue anglaise, ainsi que Le Moulin sur la Floss et Silas Marner. Eliot excelle à dépeindre la complexité morale de ses personnages et les tensions de la société rurale an...

George Eliot emerges here first as a mind and life carefully documented, then as a vivid child shaped by the Midlands world that later fed her fiction. As J. W. Cross arranges her letters and journals to let her "be her own interpreter," the book becomes both a respectful literary biography and an intimate portrait of the private woman behind the celebrated author. Born Mary Ann Evans in 1819 at Arbury Farm and raised at Griff, she grew up under the influence of a practical, forceful fathe...

In New York's drawing rooms and law offices, wit and conscience collide in a series of intimate reckonings. Esther Van Dyke, preparing for an afternoon tea, braces for the return of Harold Whitney, the former lover whose old letter and her engagement to Dr. Tennant turn a polite visit into a dangerous test of memory, pride, and lingering desire. Their reunion becomes a sparkling duel of irony and restraint, where every joke conceals a wound and every gesture may signal either rejection or ...

This anthology gathers prefaces, prologues, and epilogues that open a vivid window onto the minds of major writers and thinkers, from Caxton, Calvin, Copernicus, Bacon, and Johnson to Wordsworth, Hugo, Whitman, and Taine. More than introductions, these pieces are acts of self-revelation: they show ambition, doubt, piety, wit, and conviction at the moment a work first meets its reader. William Caxton's contributions are especially rich, tracing the early life of English print culture throug...

SERIES PREMIERE TWO BEST FRIENDS. A MAN AND HIS APE AGAINST THE WORLD. A famous Hollywood Animal Trainer, Doctor Kermit Groeden, and his only client/best friend-Amigo the Ape, the first gorilla ever nominated for an Academy Award-are framed for a crime they didn't commit. Now they're on the run. And to clear their names and save their lives, Kermit and Amigo will be forced to reveal their darkest secrets and confront each other's hidden past. Will their friendship be able to survive? A sto...

Fifty essential works, one sweeping introduction to the world's greatest storytellers. This first volume gathers Jane Austen's social wit, Charles Dickens's unforgettable characters, Fyodor Dostoevsky's psychological depth, Victor Hugo's romantic grandeur, Herman Melville's seafaring epic, and Edgar Allan Poe's dark imagination alongside giants from Cervantes to Tolstoy, the Bronte sisters to Shakespeare. Spanning centuries and continents, from the Spanish Golden Age to Gothic romance, Vic...

Originally curated by Harvard President Charles W. Eliot as a complete liberal education in fifty volumes, the Harvard Classics gathers philosophy, science, literature, and history into a single indispensable library. Plato's dialogues and Marcus Aurelius's meditations sit alongside Dante's Divine Comedy, Francis Bacon's essays, Charles Darwin's scientific writing, and Benjamin Franklin's autobiography, tracing the foundations of Western thought from ancient Greece to the modern age. Homer...

This book, newly updated, contains now several HTML tables of contents that will make reading a real pleasure!The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook) lists the titles of all novels included in this volume. By clicking on one of those titles you will be redirected to the beginning of that work, where you'll find a new TOC that lists all the chapters and sub-chapters of that specific work.This 1st volume contains the following 50 works...

With wit, irony, and painful self-knowledge, this book opens on a solitary bachelor trying to understand how little anyone truly knows himself. He confesses his loneliness, wounded vanity, and failed ambitions, while exposing the social habit of misreading character by appearance, reputation, and outward success. What begins as comic self-mockery becomes a humane study of egoism, self-deception, and the uneasy gap between inner life and public image. From there, the narrator broadens his g...

Set in medieval Palermo after the Sicilians' liberation from French rule, this lyrical historical poem celebrates King Pedro of Aragon as the shining ideal of chivalric nobility. Against the bright pageantry of a tournament, George Eliot turns to Lisa, the gentle daughter of a Florentine merchant, whose imagination is captured by the king's heroic presence and raised into a vision of perfect beauty, courage, and justice. Lisa's love is less earthly desire than worship: tender, intelligent,...

In these pages, George Eliot's private life and public fame unfold together, as Scenes of Clerical Life begins to win readers, publishers, and major literary figures who recognize its warmth, realism, and emotional truth. Letters from Jane Welsh Carlyle, Michael Faraday, Dickens, Thackeray, and J. A. Froude praise the stories as deeply human, even as Eliot remains anxious, guarded, and uncertain about criticism, rumor, and the mystery of her authorship. Her journal and correspondence revea...

These letters trace a vivid stretch of George Eliot's life, where travel, friendship, and intellectual curiosity move side by side. From France into Spain, she and George Henry Lewes appear as delighted companions, reading, walking, learning Spanish, and absorbing the sea, cities, and landscapes of Biarritz, Granada, Cordova, Seville, Madrid, and beyond. Her letters are full of sharp observation: Paris salons, Moorish echoes in Spanish architecture, moonlit views of the Alhambra, crowded i...