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George Eliot

George Eliot (1819–1880), the pen name of Mary Ann Evans, was a leading Victorian novelist and intellectual who synthesized realist fiction with philosophical depth. Her major works, including Middlemarch , The Mill on the Floss , and Adam Bede , explore moral psychology and the tension between individual desire and social determinism through a Humanist lens. Rejecting supernatural religion, she translated Spinoza’s Ethics and developed a secular ethics grounded in sympathy and interconnectedness, profoundly influencing both literary and philosophical thought.

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Ethics Impressions of Theophrastus Such – George Eliot George Eliot

The work is framed as a series of observations on human nature, intellectual life, and contemporary society, delivered…

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Ethics The Spanish Gypsy – George Eliot George Eliot

The Spanish Gypsy is a substantial poetic work by George Eliot, presented here in a New York edition…

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Classic Literature Scenes of Clerical Life – George Eliot George Eliot

Scenes of Clerical Life is George Eliot's first work of fiction, originally published in Blackwood's Magazine and later…

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Classic Literature Daniel Deronda – George Eliot George Eliot

Daniel Deronda is a substantial novel by George Eliot, structured in eight books, of which the notes provided…

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Ethics Essays – George Eliot George Eliot

The book is presented as the reflections of a fictional narrator, Theophrastus Such, a bachelor of modest means…

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19th Century Romola – George Eliot George Eliot

Romola is a historical novel by George Eliot, set in Florence at the end of the fifteenth century.

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Classic Literature Middlemarch – George Eliot George Eliot

Middlemarch is a novel by George Eliot, first published in the early 1870s, set in the provincial English…

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Fiction Armgart – George Eliot George Eliot

Armgart is a dramatic poem by George Eliot, presented in a single volume and written in verse as…

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Fiction Felix Holt, the Radical – George Eliot George Eliot

The novel interweaves a political story—the election contest for the North Loamshire constituency—with a domestic drama involving inheritance,…

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19th Century Silas Marner – George Eliot George Eliot

Silas Marner is a novel by George Eliot that tells the story of a solitary weaver whose life…

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Ethics Adam Bede – George Eliot George Eliot

Adam Bede is a novel by George Eliot, set in the English countryside during the early years of…

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Classic Literature The Mill on the Floss – George Eliot George Eliot

The Mill on the Floss is a novel by George Eliot, first published in 1860.

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