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Local Description7 vols. Mixed edition. c.1885. Contemporary half calf. Dunedin School library stamp on front board. A handsome-looking set. DescriptionThis collection features seven of George Eliot's most notable works, such as Adam Bede, Silas Marner, Middlemarch, Daniel Deronda, Scenes of a Clerical Life, The Spanish Gypsy, and Impressions of Theophrastus Such. Author descriptionMary Ann Evans, known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She wrote seven novels: Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), Romola (1862–1863), Felix Holt, the Radical (1866), Middlemarch (1871–1872) and Daniel Deronda (1876). Like Charles Dickens and Thomas Hardy, she emerged from provincial England; most of her works are set there. Her works are known for their realism, psychological insight, sense of place and detailed depiction of the countryside. |