Review of the hardback: 'The examination is carried out with a clarity and integrity of judgement, an acuteness of choice in quotation and a wise balancing of assertion and inference which, taken together, form a model of critical method … a major piece of English literary criticism. Spectator

• Preface; The facts; Part I. The Formative Years: Intellectual and Emotional Development: 1. Before the move to Coventry; 2. Coventry; 3. London; Part II. The Novels: 4. Vision and design; 5. Adam Bede; 6. The Mill on the Floss; 7. Silas Marner; 8. Romola; 9. Felix Holt; 10. Middlemarch; 11. Daniel Deronda; List of books referred to in the text; Index.

Review of the hardback: 'The examination is carried out with a clarity and integrity of judgement, an acuteness of choice in quotation and a wise balancing of assertion and inference which, taken together, form a model of critical method … a major piece of English literary criticism. Spectator

• Preface; The facts; Part I. The Formative Years: Intellectual and Emotional Development: 1. Before the move to Coventry; 2. Coventry; 3. London; Part II. The Novels: 4. Vision and design; 5. Adam Bede; 6. The Mill on the Floss; 7. Silas Marner; 8. Romola; 9. Felix Holt; 10. Middlemarch; 11. Daniel Deronda; List of books referred to in the text; Index.

Review of the hardback: 'The examination is carried out with a clarity and integrity of judgement, an acuteness of choice in quotation and a wise balancing of assertion and inference which, taken together, form a model of critical method … a major piece of English literary criticism. Spectator

• Preface; The facts; Part I. The Formative Years: Intellectual and Emotional Development: 1. Before the move to Coventry; 2. Coventry; 3. London; Part II. The Novels: 4. Vision and design; 5. Adam Bede; 6. The Mill on the Floss; 7. Silas Marner; 8. Romola; 9. Felix Holt; 10. Middlemarch; 11. Daniel Deronda; List of books referred to in the text; Index.