George Eliot

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Middlemarch


Jeden z nejslavnějších románů klasické anglické literatury nás zavádí do budoárů a ložnic anglického provinčního městečka v první polovině 19. století. Autorka skrývající se za mužským pseudonymem pozoruje s humorným nadhledem i s účastným citem trnitou cestu dvou mileneckých párů i převratný kvas doby.
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Adam Bede


Adam Bede, the first novel written by George Eliot (the pen name of Mary Ann Evans), was published in 1859. It was published pseudonymously, even though Evans was a well-published and highly respected scholar of her time.The story's plot follows four characters' rural lives in the fictional community of Hayslope—a rural, pastoral and close-knit community in 1799. The novel revolves around a love triangle between beautiful but self-absorbed Hetty Sorrel, Captain Arthur Donnithorne, the young squire who seduces her, Adam Bede, her unacknowledged suitor, and Dinah Morris, Hetty's cousin, a fervent, virtuous and beautiful Methodist lay preacher.
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Brother Jacob


Brother Jacob is Eliot's literary homage to Thackeray, a satirical modern fable that draws telling parallels between eating and reading. Revealing Eliot's deep engagement with the question of whether there are 'necessary truths' independent of our perception of them and the boundaries of art and the self.
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Daniel Deronda


Daniel Deronda is a novel by George Eliot, first published in 1876. It was the last novel she completed and the only one set in the contemporary Victorian society of her day. Its mixture of social satire and moral searching, along with a sympathetic rendering of Jewish proto-Zionist and Kaballistic ideas has made it a controversial final statement of one of the greatest of Victorian novelists.
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Middlemarch


Vast and crowded, rich in irony and suspense, Middlemarch is richer still in character, with two of the era's most enduring characters, Dorothea Brooke, trapped in a loveless marriage, and Lydgate, an ambitious young doctor.
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Silas Marner


Wrongly accused of theft and exiled by community of Lantern Yard, Silas Marner settles in the village of Raveloe, living as a recluse and caring only for work and money. Bitter and unhappy, Silas' circumstances change when an orphaned child, actually the unaknowledged child of Godfrey Cass, eldest son of the local squire, is left in his care.
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The Mill on the Floss


The novel details the lives of Tom and Maggie Tulliver, a brother and sister growing up on the river Floss near the village of St. Oggs, evidently in the 1820s, after the Napoleonic Wars but prior to the first Reform Bill (1832). The novel spans a period of 10-15 years, from Tom and Maggie’s childhood up until their deaths in a flood on the Floss. The book is fictional autobiography in part, reflecting the disgrace that George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) herself had while in a lengthy relationship with a married man, George Henry Lewes.
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Romola


Romola (1862–63) is a historical novel by George Eliot set in the fifteenth century, and is "a deep study of life in the city of Florence from an intellectual, artistic, religious, and social point of view". The story takes place amidst actual historical events during the Italian Renaissance, and includes in its plot several notable figures from Florentine history.
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The Lifted Veil


The Lifted Veil is a novella by George Eliot, first published in 1859. Quite unlike the realistic fiction for which Eliot is best known, The Lifted Veil explores themes of extrasensory perception, the essence of physical life, possible life after death, and the power of fate. The novella is a significant part of the Victorian tradition of horror fiction, which includes such other examples as Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1818), Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886), and Bram Stoker's Dracula (1897).
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Silas Marner (EN)


"I thinkSilas Marnerholds a higher place than any of the author's works," said Henry James of this classic George Eliot novel. When a little girl wanders into a random house one cold night, the lives of two different men are about to change dramatically. The house is owned by the town outsider, Silas Marner, and upon finding the girl‘s mother dead in the snow, he decides to adopt her.
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B. J. Harrison Reads The Lifted Veil (EN)


Latimer is convinced that he has a special power. According to him, he can see into the future and he can also read people's mind. Actually everybody’s but one; his brother’s wife Bertha's mind remains closed to him. Although he marries her after his brother’s death, he still cannot manage to read her thoughts.
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Romola (EN)


Set in the turbulent years following the death of Lorenzo de’ Medici, George Eliot’s fourth novel, Romola, moves the stage from the English countryside of the 19th century to an Italy four centuries before her time. It tells the tale of a young Florentine woman, Romola de’ Bardi, and her coming of age through her troubled marriage to the suave and self-absorbed Greek, Tito.
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Osud je černý jezdec


George Eliotová patří spolu s Jane Austenovou a sestrami Brontovými k nejčtenějším a nejuznávanějším anglickým autorkám své doby. Přesvědčí Vás o tom nejen v obsáhlých románech, ale i v povídkách, z nichž dvě si nyní můžete přečíst v dynamickém, váš nivém překladu Kristýny Julinové. Povídku Opona budoucnosti vypráví muž na sklonku svých dní, který byl obdařen neblahým darem číst myšlenky jiných a předvídat věci příští, a může nás těšit, že se její část odehrává v magické Praze. Láska se v ní mís í s nenávistí, naděje se zklamáním, okamžiky úlevy s marnou snahou vypravěče setřást svou nezáviděníhodnou schopnost A nade vším ční jeho milovaná manželka jako krásná, ale také velmi záhadná a temná postava. V povídce Bratr Jakoubek se setkáváme s vychytralým Davidem Levým a jeho duševně zaostalým, avšak svým způsobem bystrým bratrem Jakoubkem, který Davida přistihne u špatného skutku a jako nelítostná Nemesis se zjeví ve chvíli, kdy se David vrací ze Západní Indie a pod smyšlenou identitou st oupá na společenském žebříčku. George Eliotová zaujme austenovsky prokreslenými charaktery postav, mistrovským líčením prostředí, nečekanými dějovými zvraty a v neposlední řadě smyslem pro humor. Její povídky neztratily ani po půl druhém století svůj půvab a potvrzují její oprávněnou přítomnost mezi největšími spisovatelkami 19. století.
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OWC The Lifted Veil and Brother Jacob


She had believed that my wild poet's passion for her would make me her slave; and that, being her slave, I should execute her will in all things.' The Lifted Veil was first published in Blackwood's Magazine in 1859. A dark fantasy woven from contemporary scientific interest in the physiology of the brain, mesmerism, phrenology and experiments in revification it is Eliot's anatomy of her own moral philsophy - the ideal of imaginative sympathy or the ability to see into others' minds and emotions. Narrated by an egoccentric, morbid young clairvoyant man whose fascination for Bertha Grant lies partly in her obliquity, the story also explores fiction's ability to offer insight into the self, as well as being a remarkable portrait of a misdeveloped artist whose visionary powers merely blight his life. The Lifted Veil is now one of the most widely read and critically discussed of Eliot's works. Published as a companion piece to The Lifted Veil, Brother Jacob is by contrast Eliot's literary homage to Thackeray, a satirical modern fable that draws telling parallels between eating and reading. Yet both stories reveal Eliot's deep engagement with the question of whether there are 'necessary truths' independent of our perception of them and the boundaries of art and the self. Helen Small's introduction casts new light on works which fully deserve to be read alongside Eliot's novels.
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