Book description
Describing the silliness and ?feminine fatuity? of many popular books
by lady novelists, George Eliot perfectly skewers the formulaic yet
bestselling works that dominated her time, with their loveably flawed
heroines. She also examines the great women writers of France and their
enrichment of the culture, and the varying qualities of literary
translations. GREAT IDEAS. Throughout history, some books have changed
the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves ? and each
other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have
enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives
? and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great
thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook
civilization and helped make us who we are. Mary Ann (Marian) Evans
was born in 1819 in Warwickshire. Under the name of George Eliot, she
wrote
Scenes of Clerical Life
, Adam Bede
, The Mill on the Floss,
Silas Marner
, Romola
, Felix
Holt
, Middlemarch
and Daniel Deronda
, as well as numerous essays, articles and reviews. She died in 1880.
