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Häftad, Svenska, 2024
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"'Middlemarch' är en storartad roman, så levande och myllrande. [---] Hans-Jacob Nilsson har gjort ett enastående arbete med den nya svenska språkdräkten. Han har blåst bort dammet från denna 150-åriga roman och gett den en ny fräschör och sinnlighet." Åsa Beckman, Dagens Nyheter
"en av årets viktigaste litterära händelser." Kristoffer Leandoer, SvD
"När tidernas bästa romaner ska koras hamnar George Eliots tegelsten 'Middlemarch' från 1872 inte sällan i topp. Romanen, som äntligen kommit i suverän nyöversättning av Hans-Jacob Nilsson, är scen för scen och mening för mening något av det skarpaste och roligaste som skrivits på det engelska språket. Dessutom har den ett intrigmässigt driv som få 900-sidiga romaner kan skryta med." Amanda Svensson, Sydsvenskan.
"Det som ofta glöms bort i alla de hundratals böcker och avhandlingar som försökt gå på djupet med Middlemarch och dess litterära och sociopolitiska betydelser, är att det även är en charmig och framför allt fruktansvärt rolig bok. Det finns ingen annan viktoriansk roman där jag vikt sönder så många hörn för att kunna citera den för andra." Martin Gelin, Vi läser.
Virginia Woolf beskrev den som en av få romaner som har skrivits för vuxna. När BBC 2015 rankade de hundra främsta brittiska romanerna någonsin, kom "Middlemarch" på första plats. Nu kommer den i en efterlängtad nyöversättning av Hans-Jacob Nilsson som fått utmärkelsen Årets översättning 2025.
Tiden är 1830-tal och landsortshålan Middlemarch håller på att moderniseras. Huvudperson är den idealistiska Dorothea Brooke, som gifter sig med den uppblåste prästen Casaubon, men utan att få något tillbaka. Här finns även doktor Lydgate, ambitiös och progressiv, men också naiv och fångad i ett olyckligt äktenskap.
George Eliots klassiker från 1871 är en roman om ett samhälle i förändring. Men mest av allt är "Middlemarch" en klassisk bildningsroman, en oförglömlig skildring av Dorothea Brookes kamp för att finna verklig och varaktig kärlek.
Häftad, Engelska, 2019
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'the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts' The greatest 'state of the nation' novel in English, Middlemarch addresses ordinary life at a moment of great social change, in the years leading to the Reform Act of 1832. Through her portrait of a Midlands town, George Eliot addresses gender relations and class, self-knowledge and self-delusion, community and individualism. Eliot follows the fortunes of the town's central characters as they find, lose, and rediscover ideals and vocations in the world. Through its psychologically rich portraits, the novel contains some of the great characters of literature, including the idealistic but naïve Dorothea Brooke, beautiful and egotistical Rosamund Vincy, the dry scholar Edward Casaubon, the wise and grounded Mary Garth, and the brilliant but proud Dr Lydgate. In its whole view of a society, the novel offers enduring insight into the pains and pleasures of life with others, and explores nearly every subject of concern to modern life:. art, religion, science, politics, self, society, and, above all, human relationships. This edition uses the definitive Clarendon text.
Häftad, Engelska, 2012
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The Penguin English Library Edition of The Mill on the Floss by George EliotIf life had no love in it, what else was there for Maggie?Tragic and moving, The Mill on the Floss is a novel of grand passions and tormented lives. As the rebellious Maggie's fiery spirit and imaginative nature bring her into bitter conflict with her narrow provincial family, most painfully with her beloved brother Tom, their fates are played out on an epic scale. George Eliot drew on her own frustrated rural upbringing to create one of the great novels of childhood, and one of literature's most unforgettable heroines.The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War.
Häftad, Engelska, 2003
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One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World''One of the few English novels written for grown-up people' Virginia WoolfGeorge Eliot's nuanced and moving novel is a masterly evocation of connected lives, changing fortunes and human frailties in a provincial community. Peopling its landscape are Dorothea Brooke, a young idealist whose search for intellectual fulfilment leads her into a disastrous marriage to the pedantic scholar Casaubon; Dr Lydgate, whose pioneering medical methods, combined with an imprudent marriage to the spendthrift beauty Rosamond, threaten to undermine his career; and the religious hypocrite Bulstrode, hiding scandalous crimes from his past.Edited with an Introduction and notes by ROSEMARY ASHTON
Inbunden, Svenska, 2018
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Silas Marner flyr sin strängt religiösa omgivning efter att ha anklagats för ett brott han inte begått. Han börjar ett nytt liv, som vävare i utkanten av en liten stad. Med tiden tjänar han ihop en förmögenhet, men ödet har gjort honom känslokall och bitter. Och än en gång ska Silas Marner förlora allt han äger. Det är först när han tvingas adoptera en föräldralös flicka, som han finner anledning att åter söka sin tro.George Eliots Silas Marner [1861] är både en realistisk roman och en moralisk saga, med den engelska landsbygden som spelplats. En av den engelska litteraturens stora klassiker, här i översättning av Ingegerd von Tell. I bokform på svenska för första gången på 38 år.GEORGE ELIOT, egentligen MARY ANN EVANS [1819-1880], var en engelsk romanförfattare. Flera av hennes verk räknas till den brittiska litteraturens viktigaste i en realistisk romantradition. Ofta utspelar de sig på den engelska landsbygden och utmärks av en djupt inkännande psykologisk detaljskildring som var långt före sin tid.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2011
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One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World''One of the few English novels written for grown-up people' Virginia WoolfGeorge Eliot's nuanced and moving novel is a masterly evocation of connected lives, changing fortunes and human frailties in a provincial community. Peopling its landscape are Dorothea Brooke, a young idealist whose search for intellectual fulfilment leads her into a disastrous marriage to the pedantic scholar Casaubon; Dr Lydgate, whose pioneering medical methods, combined with an imprudent marriage to the spendthrift beauty Rosamond, threaten to undermine his career; and the religious hypocrite Bulstrode, hiding scandalous crimes from his past.Edited with an Introduction and notes by ROSEMARY ASHTON
Häftad, Engelska, 2012
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One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World'The Penguin English Library Edition of Middlemarch by George Eliot'She did not know then that it was Love who had come to her briefly as in a dream before awaking, with the hues of morning on his wings - that it was Love to whom she was sobbing her farewell as his image was banished by the blameless rigour of irresistible day'George Eliot's most ambitious novel is a masterly evocation of diverse lives and changing fortunes in a provincial community. Peopling its landscape are Dorothea Brooke, a young idealist whose search for intellectual fulfillment leads her into a disastrous marriage to the pedantic scholar Casaubon; the charming but tactless Dr Lydgate, whose marriage to the spendthrift beauty Rosamund and pioneering medical methods threaten to undermine his career; and the religious hypocrite Bulstrode, hiding scandalous crimes from his past. As their stories interweave, George Eliot creates a richly nuanced and moving drama, hailed by Virginia Woolf as 'one of the few English novels written for adult people'.The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War.
Häftad, Engelska, 2015
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Considered one the masterpieces of realist fiction, George Eliot's novel, Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life, explores a fictional nineteenth-century Midlands town in the midst of modern changes. The quiet drama of ordinary lives and flawed choices are played out in the complexly portrayed central characters of the novel-the idealistic Dorothea Brooke; the ambitious Dr. Lydgate; the spendthrift Fred Vincy; and the steadfast Mary Garth. The appearance of two outsiders further disrupts the town's equilibrium-Will Ladislaw, the spirited nephew of Dorothea's husband, the Rev. Edward Casaubon, and the sinister John Raffles, who threatens to expose the hidden past of one of the town's elite.
Inbunden, Engelska, 1991
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Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life, published 1871-2, is set in the imaginary county of Loamshire during the years of unrest preceding the 1832 Reform Bill. With its complex plot, broad canvas and huge cast of characters, it has long been recognized as one of the few truly classic English novels.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2021
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Dorothea Brooke longs to do good, but marriage, ambition and provincial gossip test her every intention. This Vintage Classics 150th anniversary gift edition, with an introduction by Zadie Smith, celebrates one of the most admired novels in English literature. Dorothea Brooke is intelligent, idealistic and hungry for a meaningful life. Tertius Lydgate arrives in Middlemarch with medical ambition and reforming zeal. Around them, marriages, inheritances, debts, politics, gossip and moral compromise bind a whole provincial community together. George Eliot explores love, disillusionment, scandal and private goodness with unmatched sympathy and intelligence. First published in instalments from 1871, Middlemarch remains a profound novel about marriage, ambition, reform, religion, science and the hidden influence one life can have on another. One of the BBC’s 100 Novels That Shaped Our World, this edition is a beautiful classic gift for readers seeking Victorian fiction, literary classics and one of the great studies of the human heart. **One of the BBC's 100 Novels That Shaped Our World**
Häftad, Engelska, 2008
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'Our deeds carry their terrible consequences...consequences that are hardly ever confined to ourselves.'Pretty Hetty Sorrel is loved by the village carpenter Adam Bede, but her head is turned by the attentions of the fickle young squire, Arthur Donnithorne. His dalliance with the dairymaid has unforeseen consequences that affect the lives of many in their small rural community. First published in 1859, Adam Bede carried its readers back sixty years to the lush countryside of Eliot's native Warwickshire, and a time of impending change for England and the wider world. Eliot's powerful portrayal of the interaction of ordinary people brought a new social realism to the novel, in which humour and tragedy co-exist, and fellow-feeling is the mainstay of human relationships. Faith, in the figure of Methodist preacher Dinah Morris, offers redemption to all who are willing to embrace it.This new edition is based on the definitive Clarendon edition and Eliot's corrected text of 1861. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
Häftad, Engelska, 2014
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'she felt herself standing at the game of life with many eyes upon her, daring everything to win much'Gwendolen Harleth gambles her happiness when she marries a sadistic aristocrat for his money. Beautiful, neurotic, and self-centred, Gwendolen is trapped in an increasingly destructive relationship, and only her chance encounter with the idealistic Deronda seems to offer the hope of a brighter future. Deronda is searching for a vocation, and in embracing the Jewish cause he finds one that is both visionary and life-changing. Damaged by their pasts, and alienated from the society around them, they must both discover the values that will give their lives meaning. George Eliot's powerful novel is set in a Britain whose ruling class is decadent and materialistic, its power likely to be threatened by a politically emergent Germany. The novel's exploration of sexuality, guilt, and the will to power anticipates later developments in fiction, and its linking of the personal and the political in a context of social and economic crisis gives it especial relevance to the dominant issues of the twenty-first century. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
Häftad, Engelska, 1993
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Introduction and Notes by Doreen Roberts, Rutherford College, University of Kent at Canterbury.Middlemarch is a complex tale of idealism, disillusion, profligacy, loyalty and frustrated love. This penetrating analysis of the life of an English provincial town during the time of social unrest prior to the Reform Bill of 1832 is told through the lives of Dorothea Brooke and Dr Tertius Lydgate and includes a host of other paradigm characters who illuminate the condition of English life in the mid-nineteenth century.Henry James described Middlemarch as a ‘treasurehouse of detail’ while Virginia Woolf famously endorsed George Eliot’s masterpiece as ‘one of the few English novels written for grown-up people.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2025
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Middlemarch is a complex tale of idealism, disillusion, profligacy, loyalty and frustrated love. This penetrating analysis of the life of an English provincial town during the time of social unrest prior to the Reform Bill of 1832 is told through the lives of Dorothea Brooke and Dr Tertius Lydgate and includes a host of other paradigm characters who illuminate the condition of English life in the mid-nineteenth century.Henry James described Middlemarch as a ‘treasure-house of detail’ while Virginia Woolf famously endorsed George Eliot’s masterpiece as ‘one of the few English novels written for grown-up people’
Häftad, Engelska, 2017
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Gold! - his own gold - brought back to him as mysteriously as it had been taken away!Falsely accused of theft, Silas Marner is cut off from his community but finds refuge in the village of Raveloe, where he is eyed with distant suspicion. Like a spider from a fairy-tale, Silas fills fifteen monotonous years with weaving and accumulating gold. The son of the wealthy local Squire, Godfrey Cass also seeks an escape from his past. One snowy winter, two events change the course of their lives: Silas's gold is stolen and, a child crawls across his threshold. Combining the qualities of a fable with a rich evocation of rural life in the early years of the nineteenth century, Silas Marner (1861) is a masterpiece of construction and a powerful meditation on the value of communal bonds in a mysterious world.
E-bok
Svenska, 202049 kr
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Middelmarch av George Eliot. GEORGE ELIOT, egentligen MARY ANN EVANS [1819-1880], var en engelsk romanförfattare. Flera av hennes verk räknas till den brittiska litteraturens viktigaste i en realistisk romantradition. Ofta utspelar de sig på den engelska landsbygden och utmärks av en djupt inkännande psykologisk detaljskildring som var långt före sin tid.
Häftad, Engelska, 1996
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One of George Eliot's most ambitious and imaginative novels, Romola is set in Renaissance Florence during the turbulent years following the expulsion of the powerful Medici family during which the zealous religious reformer Savonarola rose to control the city. At its heart is Romola, the devoted daughter of a blind scholar, married to the clever but ultimately treacherous Tito whose duplicity in both love and politics threatens to destroy everything she values, and she must break away to find her own path in life. Described by Eliot as 'written with my best blood', the story of Romola's intellectual and spiritual awakening is a compelling portrayal of a Utopian heroine, played out against a turbulent historical backdrop.
Häftad, Engelska, 2017
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The most ambitious narrative of nineteenth-century realism, Middlemarch tells the story of an entire town in the years leading up to the Reform Bill of 1832, a time when modern methods were starting to challenge old orthodoxies. Eliot’s sophisticated and acute characterization gives rich expression to every nuance of feeling, and vividly brings to life the town’s inhabitants – including the young idealist Dorothea Brooke, the dry scholar Casaubon, the young, passionate reformist doctor Lydgate, the flighty young beauty Rosamond and the old, secretive banker Bulstrode – as they move in counterpoint to each other.Art, religion, politics, society, science, human relationships in all their complexity, nothing is left unexamined under the narrator’s microscope. One of the greatest novels written in the English language, Middlemarch is a literary landmark in its groundbreaking approach, as well as a priceless document of its age.
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Svenska, 202479 kr
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"'Middlemarch' är en storartad roman, så levande och myllrande. [---] Hans-Jacob Nilsson har gjort ett enastående arbete med den nya svenska språkdräkten. Han har blåst bort dammet från denna 150-åriga roman och gett den en ny fräschör och sinnlighet." Åsa Beckman, Dagens Nyheter
"en av årets viktigaste litterära händelser." Kristoffer Leandoer, SvD
"När tidernas bästa romaner ska koras hamnar George Eliots tegelsten 'Middlemarch' från 1872 inte sällan i topp. Romanen, som äntligen kommit i suverän nyöversättning av Hans-Jacob Nilsson, är scen för scen och mening för mening något av det skarpaste och roligaste som skrivits på det engelska språket. Dessutom har den ett intrigmässigt driv som få 900-sidiga romaner kan skryta med." Amanda Svensson, Sydsvenskan.
"Det som ofta glöms bort i alla de hundratals böcker och avhandlingar som försökt gå på djupet med Middlemarch och dess litterära och sociopolitiska betydelser, är att det även är en charmig och framför allt fruktansvärt rolig bok. Det finns ingen annan viktoriansk roman där jag vikt sönder så många hörn för att kunna citera den för andra." Martin Gelin, Vi läser.
Virginia Woolf beskrev den som en av få romaner som har skrivits för vuxna. När BBC 2015 rankade de hundra främsta brittiska romanerna någonsin, kom "Middlemarch" på första plats. Nu kommer den i en efterlängtad nyöversättning av Hans-Jacob Nilsson som fått utmärkelsen Årets översättning 2025.
Tiden är 1830-tal och landsortshålan Middlemarch håller på att moderniseras. Huvudperson är den idealistiska Dorothea Brooke, som gifter sig med den uppblåste prästen Casaubon, men utan att få något tillbaka. Här finns även doktor Lydgate, ambitiös och progressiv, men också naiv och fångad i ett olyckligt äktenskap.
George Eliots klassiker från 1871 är en roman om ett samhälle i förändring. Men mest av allt är "Middlemarch" en klassisk bildningsroman, en oförglömlig skildring av Dorothea Brookes kamp för att finna verklig och varaktig kärlek.
Häftad, Engelska, 1993
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Introduction and Notes by R.T. Jones, Honorary Fellow of the University of York.This novel, based on George Eliot's own experiences of provincial life, is a masterpiece of ambiguity in which moral choice is subjected to the hypocrisy of the Victorian age.As the headstrong Maggie Tulliver grows into womanhood, the deep love which she has for her brother Tom turns into conflict, because she cannot reconcile his bourgeois standards with her own lively intelligence. Maggie is unable to adapt to her community or break free from it, and the result, on more than one level, is tragedy.
Ljudbok
Svenska, 2017189 kr
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Första delen av George Eliots mest ambitiösa roman. Middlemarch är en komplex berättelse om idealism, lojalitet och uppslitande kärlek.
I en engelsk småstad under 1800-talets första hälft får vi följa den unga idealisten Dorothea Brooke som är olyckligt gift, och den charmige men taktlöse Dr Tertius Lydgate som även han har problem på det äktenskapliga planet.
Det är ett färgstarkt och rörande drama som hyllades av Virginia Woolf som lär ha sagt att det var “en av få engelska romaner skriven för vuxna människor”.
I originalöversättning av A. G. Engberg
George Eliot, pseudonym för Mary Anne Evans, var under sin livstid en av Storbritanniens främsta författare. Hon valde sin pseudonym efter sin förebild Georges Sand.
Häftad, Engelska, 1990
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The works collected in this volume provide an illuminating introduction to George Eliot's incisive views on religion, art and science, and the nature and purpose of fiction. Essays such as 'Evangelical Teaching' show her rejecting her earlier religious beliefs, while 'Woman in France' questions conventional ideas about female virtues and marriage, and 'Notes on Form in Art' sets out theories of idealism and realism that she developed further in Middlemarch and Daniel Deronda. It also includes selections from Eliot's translations of works by Strauss and Feuerbach that challenged many ideas about Christianity; excerpts from her poems; and reviews of writers such as Wollstonecraft, Goethe and Browning. Wonderfully rich in imagery and observations, these pieces reveal the intellectual development of this most challenging and rewarding of writers.
Häftad, Engelska, 1995
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As Daniel Deronda opens, Gwendolen Harleth is poised at the roulette-table, prepared to throw away her family fortune. She is observed by Daniel Deronda, a young man groomed in the finest tradition of the English upper-classes. And while Gwendolen loses everything and becomes trapped in an oppressive marriage, Deronda's fortunes take a different turn. After a dramatic encounter with the young Jewish woman Mirah, he becomes involved in a search for her lost family and finds himself drawn into ever-deeper sympathies with Jewish aspirations and identity. 'I meant everything in the book to be related to everything else', wrote George Eliot of her last and most ambitious novel, and in weaving her plot strands together she created a bold and richly textured picture of British society and the Jewish experience within it.
Häftad, Engelska, 1995
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When the young nobleman Harold Transome returns to England from the colonies with a self-made fortune, he scandalizes the town of Treby Magna with his decision to stand for Parliament as a Radical. But after the idealistic Felix Holt also returns to the town, the difference between Harold's opportunistic values and Holt's profound beliefs becomes apparent. Forthright, brusque and driven by a firm desire to educate the working-class, Felix is at first viewed with suspicion by many, including the elegant but vain Esther Lyon, the daughter of the local clergyman. As she discovers, however, his blunt words conceal both passion and deep integrity. Soon the romantic and over-refined Esther finds herself overwhelmed by a heart-wrenching decision: whether to choose the wealthy Transome as a husband, or the impoverished but honest Felix Holt.
Häftad, Engelska, 1999
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George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) made her fictional debut when SCENES OF CLERICAL LIFE appeared in 'Blackwood's Magazine' in 1857. These stories contain Eliot's earliest studies of what became enduring themes in her great novels: the impact of religious controversy and social change in provincial life, and the power of love to transform the lives of individual men and women. 'Adam Bede' was soon to appear and bring George Eliot fame and fortune. In the meantime the SCENES won acclaim from a discerning readership including Charles Dickens: ' I hope you will excuse my writing to you to express my admiration...The exquisite truth and delicacy, both of the humour and the pathos of those stories, I have never seen the like of.'
Häftad, Engelska, 2008
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Carpenter Adam Bede is in love with the beautiful Hetty Sorrel, but unknown to him, he has a rival, in the local squire’s son Arthur Donnithorne. Hetty is soon attracted by Arthur’s seductive charm and they begin to meet in secret. The relationship is to have tragic consequences that reach far beyond the couple themselves, touching not just Adam Bede, but many others, not least, pious Methodist Preacher Dinah Morris. A tale of seduction, betrayal, love and deception, the plot of Adam Bede has the quality of an English folk song. Within the setting of Hayslope, a small, rural community, Eliot brilliantly creates a sense of earthy reality, making the landscape itself as vital a presence in the novel as that of her characters themselves.
Häftad, Engelska, 2023
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One of the most famous novelists in the English literary canon, the likes of Middlemarch and Silas Marner are household names, but Eliot’s essays are often overlooked. This collection brings together some of her most important essays and seeks to celebrate her non-fiction writing.
Häftad, Svenska, 2022
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I denna bok presenterar poeten Lis Lovén sexton brittiska, kvinnliga författare från Margaret Cavendish på 1600-talet till Jane Austen, systrarna Brontë, Ann Radcliffe, Beatrix Potter, Virginia Woolf med mera… Många är främst kända som romanförfattare. De har haft stor betydelse inom brittisk litteratur. För första gången är ett urval av deras lyriska verk samlat i denna antologi med brittiska kvinnliga poeter.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2024
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Häftad, Engelska, 2021
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One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World'. HarperCollins is proud to present our range of timeless literary classics. ‘People glorify all sorts of bravery except the bravery they might show on behalf of their nearest neighbours’ Rejecting the conventional narratives of the time, Middlemarch shows a realistic portrayal of Victorian village life. Peopling this ground-breaking work are Tertius Lydgate, a talented yet naive young doctor; Dorothea Brooke, stuck in a loveless marriage; and the religious hypocrite Bulstrode, hiding shocking crimes from his past.An intricate story weaving together many lives, Middlemarch is described as one of the best-loved novels of all time and heralded as ‘one of the few English novels written for grown-up people’ by Virginia Woolf. It is a richly nuanced drama that is a quintessential English classic.