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Daniel Deronda
Edited with an Introduction and Notes by
Terence Cave
In Daniel Deronda, her remarkable final
novel, Eliot set out to come to terms with
the British Jews, a society-within-a-society
of which her contemporaries seemed to
be either oblivious or contemptuous.
Eliot weaves her plot strands intimately,
infusing them with her insights about
human nature and daring the readers of
Middlemarch and Adam Bede to consider
realms of experience completely new to
the Victorian novel.
848 pp. 978-0-14-043427-9 $11.00
Felix Holt: The Radical
Edited with an Introduction and Notes by
Lynda Mugglestone
Esther Lyon, the heroine, must choose
between two men—one of independent
wealth and one who is a political rascal—
while also deciding her fate as a woman.
576 pp. 978-0-14-043435-4 $15.00
Middlemarch
Edited with an Introduction and Notes by
Rosemary Ashton
This superb novel, Eliot’s finest
achievement, portrays the shape and
texture of a rising provincial town of the
1830s through the remarkable story of
determined heroine Dorothea Brooke—
an idealist and a woman of conviction
trapped in an agonizing marriage to the
egotistical Mr. Casaubon.
880 pp. 978-0-14-143954-9 $10.00
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The Mill on the Floss
Edited with an Introduction and Notes by
A. S. Byatt
This affectionate and perceptive portrayal
of childhood and adolescence in rural
England features an imaginative heroine
whose spirit closely resembles Eliot’s own.
696 pp. 978-0-14-143962-4 $10.00
Romola
Edited with an Introduction by
Dorothea Barrett
Published in 1863, Romola probes into the
issues of gender and learning and of desire
and scholarship.
688 pp. 978-0-14-043470-5 $14.00
“The exquisite truth and delicacy, both of the
humour and the pathos of those stories, i
have never seen the like of.”
—charles dickens
Scenes of Clerical Life
Edited with an Introduction and Notes by
Jennifer Gribble
These stories constitute Eliot’s fictional
debut and contain what became her
enduring themes: the impact of religious
controversy and social change in
provincial life, and the power of love to
transform the lives of individual men and
women.
416 pp. 978-0-14-043638-9 $12.00
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Selected Essays, Poems, and
Other Writings
Edited by A. S. Byatt and Nicholas Warren
Introduction by A. S. Byatt
Rich in wit and energy dissimilar from
that of her novels, this collection of Eliot’s
shorter works includes contributions to
the Westminster Review, selections from
Impressions of Theophrastus Such, passages
from her translations of Feuerbach and
Strauss, the “Notes on Form in Art,” and
other major essays.
544 pp. 978-0-14-043148-3 $16.00