Novels of George Eliot: Eight Books in Seven Volumes [A Mix of Stereotyped Edition and New Edition],

George Eliot, Novels of George Eliot: Eight Books in Seven Volumes, (A Mix of Stereotyped Edition and New Edition), London: William Blackwood, 1890, 7 Volumes

Seven volumes complete (eight volumes bound as seven)
Volume I: Adam Bede, vi + 462 pages including 7 black and white illustrations
Volume II: Mill on The Floss, v + 486 pages including 7 black and white illustrations
Volume III: Silas Marner, 158 pages including 3 black and white illustrations, bound with Volume IV: Scenes from a Clerical Life, 330 pages including 6 black and white illustrations
Volume V: Felix Holt: The Radical, 430 pages including 7 black and white illustrations
Volume VI: Romola, v + 504 pages
Volume VII: Daniel Deronda, 612 pages
Volume VIII: Middlemarch, viii + 621 pages

Red half calf binding with marbled boards, marbled endpapers, gilt decorated spine with black title labels and all edges marbled (each)
7.2 x 5 in (18.5 x 13 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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