ELIOT, George; EVANS, Mary Ann — Novels

Edinburgh & London: William Blackwood & Sons, 1901. The Library Edition of George Eliot's Works in Three Quarter Morocco ELIOT, George. Novels. Edinburgh & London: William Blackwood & Sons, 1901. The Library Edition. Ten octavo volumes (8 1/4 x 5 5/8 inches; 210 x 150 mm.). Photogravure frontispieces. Publisher's three-quarter brown morocco over red cloth boards ruled in gilt. Spines with five shallow raised bands decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. Spines slightly faded, still a very good set. A popular edition of Eliot's works, it includes the Essays and Leaves from a Note-Book. Mary Ann Evans (1819-1880), also known as Mary Anne or Marian, wrote under the pen name George Eliot. She was an English novelist, poet, journalist, and translator, recognized as one of the foremost writers of the Victorian era. Eliot authored 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 hailed from provincial England, and her novels are deeply rooted in that setting. Her work is celebrated for its realism, psychological depth, vivid sense of place, and detailed portrayals of rural life. Middlemarch has been praised by Virginia Woolf as "one of the few English novels written for grown-up people" and has been regarded by writers such as Martin Amis and Julian Barnes as the greatest novel in the English language. .