Novels of George Eliot. Adam Bede; The Mill on the Floss; Silas Marner; Scenes of Clerical Life; Felix Holt; Romola; Middlemarch
Price: $300.00
Hard Cover. Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, ca. 1891. Reprints. Very Good.
Seven volumes bound in six. Vol. 1: Adam Bede, Vol. 2: The Mill on the Floss, Vols. 3-4 (2 vols. bound in 1): Silas Marner and Scenes of Clerical Life, Vol. 5: Felix Holt, Vol. 6: Romola, Vol. 7: Middlemarch. Lacking Eliot's final novel, Daniel Deronda. With seven illustrations to Vol. 1, seven to Vol. 2, nine to Vols. 3-4, seven to Vol. 5, one to Vol. 6, and one to Vol. 7. Reprints, with "New Edition" stated on title pages of Vols. 1 and 7, and "Stereotyped Edition" stated on title pages of Vols. 2, 3-4, 5, and 6. Finely and uniformly bound in half green morocco, with red marbled boards, spines with five raised bands, lettered and decorated in gilt, all edges gilt, and red marbled endpapers. Very good set, with light toning to spines, and some rubbing to boards and corners. Overall, a handsome and sturdy set. George Eliot, whose real name was Mary Ann Evans, was one of the great 19th-century novelists, renowned for her social and political consciousness and realistic depictions of country life. In addition to writing novels, she edited and contributed to the left-wing journal The Westminster Review as one of the only female editors of her time. Middlemarch is widely considered Eliot's masterpiece, with Virginia Woolf praising it as a "magnificent book, which with all its imperfections, is one of the few English books written for grown-up people." Middlemarch was ranked number 1 on BBC Culture's list of the 100 greatest British Novels. Item #GE018
