The Complete Works of George Eliot [ Seven Volume Set] Collected Writings

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Octavo, Gilt lettered and decorated cover and spine. Top edges gilt. Books measure 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches. Marbled boards and endpapers. Complete as published and including Adam Bede, Romola, Mill on the Floss, Felix Holt, Theophrastus, Poems & Essays, My Life and Letters, Middlemarch,Daniel Deronda, Silas Marner, and Clerical Life. From the colophon: Bound in 1/2 tan calf with marbled boards and endpapers. Spines have raised bands with 2 black labels lettered in gilt and gilt decoration on the remainder of the spine. One volume slightly darker than the other and with wear to the top of the spine. One spine label mildly faded. Mary Anne Evans (22 November 1819 - 22 December 1880 ; alternatively "Mary Ann" or " Marian"), known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, journalist, translator and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era.She is the author of seven novels, most of them set in provincial England and known for their realism and psychological insight. She used a male pen name, she said, to ensure her works would be taken seriously. Female authors were published under their own names during Eliot's life, but she wanted to escape the stereotype of women only writing lighthearted romances. An additional factor in her use of a pen name may have been a desire to shield her private life from public scrutiny and to prevent scandals attending her relationship with the married George Henry Lewes, with whom she lived for over 20 years. In the 20th century she was championed by a new breed of critics, most notably by Virginia Woolf, who called Middlemarch "one of the few English novels written for grown-up people". N° de ref. del artículo 025557

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