George Eliot‘s Works: Warwick Edition [14 Volumes]
George Eliot, George Eliot's Works (Warwick Edition), London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1906-1920, 14 Volumes
Volume 1: Adam Bede, 817 pages, 1912
Volume 2: The Mill on the Floss, 822 pages, 1912
Volume 3: Felix Holt: The Radical, 712 pages, 1910
Volume 4: Romola, 891 pages, 1912
Volume 5: Scenes of Clerical Life, 613 pages, 1907
Volume 6: Silas mariner; The Lifted Veil; Brother Jacob, 551 pages, 1920, spine professionally rebacked with some loss
Volume 7: Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life, Volume I: 621 pages, 1912
Volume 8: Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life, Volume II: 621 pages, 1912
Volume 9: Daniel Deronda, Volume I: 602 pages, 1911
Volume 10: Daniel Deronda, Volume II: 627 pages, 1911
Volume 11: The Spanish Gypsy: The Legend of Jubal and other poems, old and new, 685 pages, 1906
Volume 12: Impressions of Theophrastus such Essays and Leaves from a Notebook, 607 pages, 1920
Together with
J W Cross, George Eliot's Life: As Related in Her Letters and Journals, Volume I: 626 pages, 1910
J W Cross, George Eliot's Life: As Related in Her Letters and Journals, Volume II: 621 pages, 1910
Full polished dark brown leather, gilt borders to both covers, gilt titles and elaborate art nouveau decorations to spines, top edges gilt, dark grey/green end papers, red and black lettering to title pages (each)
6.5 x 4 in (16.5 x 10.5 cm) (each)
Mary Anne (alternatively Mary Ann or Marian) Evans (22 November 1819 - 22 December 1880), better known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English author, journalist, and translator who was a significant figure in Victorian literature. Her writings were mostly set in rural England and were noted for their realism and psychological insight. She claimed she assumed a male pen name to guarantee her work was considered seriously. During Eliot's lifetime, female authors were published under their own names, but she sought to break the stigma of women exclusively penning lighter romances. Another reason she used a pen name might have been a desire to keep her private life (with the married George Henry Lewes, with whom she lived for over 20 years) out of the spotlight and to avoid controversies. Her 1872 work, Middlemarch, has been described as the greatest novel in the English language by Martin Amis and by Julian Barnes.
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