In the days when the spinning-wheels hummed busily in the farmhouses—and even great ladies, clothed in silk and thread-lace, had their toy spinning-wheels of polished oak—there mi

Daniel Deronda: a Victorian novel that's still controversial George Eliot shocked readers and critics with a final novel whose portrayal of Judaism and Zionism continues to resonate 'A peculiar ...Th

The anti-hero, David Faux, is deftly drawn, and his brother Jacob embodies the self-destruction of little minds and weak characters. The book is funny, and the ending satisfying.

Give me no light, great Heaven, but such as turns.To energy of human fellowship;No powers beyond the growing heritage.That makes completer manhood.

“I have not lacked thy mild reproof,Nor golden largess of thy praise.”

Scenes of Clerical Life, the first novel by George Eliot.The stories, noted for their dialogue and characterization, drew upon Eliot’s early experiences with religion in a provincial settin