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...

Outcast from the church, community, and close friends for a crime he did not commit, Silas Marner's trust and faith falls away. A broken, disillusioned man, he builds a new faith, that will never...

‘The Mill on the Floss’ tells the tale of Tom and Maggie Tulliver, the children of the obstinate miller of Dorlcote Mill. Maggie, intense and sensitive, dearly loves her more prosaic brother,...