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Few novelists have ever attempted so broad a canvas as George Eliot in her masterpiece, Middlemarch. Portraying every level of social life in a provincial Midlands town called Middlemarch, she interweaves several intensely dramatic stories of love and death, betrayal and reconciliation, into one of the finest pictures of nineteenth-century England ever created. Its acute psychological penetration also makes it an exceptionally modern work, particularly in the romantic idealism of Dorothea Brooke, who often resembles George Eliot herself, and in the disastrous marriage and thwarted career of the young reformist doctor, Lydgate. Virginia Woolf called it one of the few English novels written for grown-up peopleand it is truly great literature that ranks among the best novels in the world.

Love and family duty form the central threads of this classic, tragic tale by one of Britain's finest novelists.

The perfect tenses ¿ both present and past ¿ are explained and used prominently in most of these readers. Many introduce the passive voice, and most feature the future tense. Nearly all of them also include exercises to develop understanding of the first conditional, and some include instruction in all three conditional forms. More modal verbs and more complex verbal constructions ¿ using gerunds and infinitives ¿ are presented. There is a generally higher level of vocabulary, sometimes quite sophisticated.

Publicada en 1860, inspirada en gran parte de los recuerdos de su vida, se trata de la vida de Maggie, una mujer sensible y sagaz encerrada en un ambiente vulgar y provinciano. Relegada en favor de sus hermanos, pese a ser ella mas inteligente, una historia que encierra una critica certera, a la vez que una obra apasionada.Mujer singular de precoz y sorprendente inteligencia. Su verdadero nombre fue Mary Ann Evans (1819-1880). Figura clave de la Inglaterra victoriana, y una de las intelectuales mas brillantes de su tiempo.

En la peripecia de David Faux (que, de aprendiz de pastelero, aspira a ser un gran personaje en las Indias Occidentales, adonde emigra tras robarle los ahorros a su madre) y de su hermano, el idiota Jacob (que, de pura gratitud, se erige en su imprevista Nemesis), la autora de Middlemarch no es solo capaz de volcar su reconocido talento para la satira de costumbres, sino que acierta a trascenderla por medio de uno de esos dones del que solo gozan las grandes figuras de la literatura: la complejidad de estilo. Esta novelita no es, en fin, solo un cuento moral ameno, recto e hilarante al que se aplican con brillantez los amplios recursos de la tecnica realista: es, sencillamente, toda una leccion del arte de escribir.

Quintaesencia de la novela victoriana, su obra -Mary Ann Evans (1819-1880)- traza con maestría los sutiles vaivenes que rigen los destinos de tres parejas. La ambición, los entimientos y deseos erróneos, el abismo entre lo que se dice y lo que realmente se oculta. Una comunidad retratada en todos sus aspectos, en epoca de prfundos cambios.

Emily Watson, star of the BBC adaptation, reads this classic story of Tom and Maggie Tulliver brother and sister torn apart by the ignorance of one and the spirit of the other.

George Eliot's most ambitious novel is a masterly evocation of diverse lives and changing fortunes in a provincial community. Peopling its landscape are Dorothea Brooke, a young idealist whose search for intellectual fulfillment leads her into a disastrous marriage to the pedantic scholar Casaubon; the charming but tactless Dr. Lydgate, whose marriage to the spendthrift beauty Rosamund and pioneering medical methods threaten to undermine his career; and the religious hypocrite Bulstrode, hiding scandalous crimes from his past. As their stories interweave, George Eliot creates a richly nuanced and moving drama, hailed by Virginia Woolf as 'one of the few English novels written for adult people'.

Una novela complejamente psicológicaEsta novela narra las peripecias de Silas Marner, un hombre desdichado que, tras un desengaño amoroso y social, huye de su ciudad y se instala como tejedor en el pueblo de Raveloe, donde lleva una vida tranquila, aunque solitaria y desarraigada, dedicandose en cuerpo y alma a trabajar y acumular dinero. Un buen dia sus ahorros desaparecen y, poco despues, como si se tratara de un trueque del destino, aparece una niña abandonada a la que adopta. Los cuidados que le procura y su educacion cambiaran su vida.George Eliot, seudonimo de Mary Ann Evans (1819-1880), escritora britanica. Junto con Henry James y Joseph Conrad forma el trio canonico de la literatura inglesa de finales del siglo XIX. Sus obras mas famosas son: Adam Bede, El hermano Jacob, El molino junto al Floss, El velo descubierto y Middlemarch.Se trata de una autora clasica reconocida mundialmente.Es una novela llena de emocion y complejidad psicologica.Con un argumento sencillo, describe la sociedad rural inglesa del siglo XIX.Dirigido a lectores amantes de la buena literatura clasica y aficionados a la historia.

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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.

Brought up at Dorlcote Mill, Maggie Tulliver worships her brother Tom and is desperate to win the approval of her parents, but her passionate, wayward nature and her fierce intelligence bring her into constant conflict with her family. As she reaches adulthood, the clash between their expectations and her desires is painfully played out as she finds herself torn between her relationships with three very different men: her proud and stubborn brother, a close friend who is also the son of her family's worst enemy, and a charismatic but dangerous suitor. With its poignant portrayal of sibling relationships, The Mill on the Floss is considered George Eliot's most autobiographical novel; it is also one of her most powerful and moving.