COMPLETE NOVELS (7 VOLUMES)
Written by George Eliot
Published by Folio Society
in 1999
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COMPLETE NOVELS (7 VOLUMES)
Written by George Eliot.
Stock no. 1830789
1st thus.
1999.
Hardback.
Slightly better than very good condition.
Set in two slip-cases consists of: Silas Marner; The Mill on the Floss; Adam Bede; Romola; Felix Holt; Daniel Deronda; Middlemarch. Different colour cloths with b/w engravings by different illustrators. Top edge of text blocks is grubby/lightly browned at the opening ends (approx 2" maximum starting from outside edge). Spine of Middlemarch is faded, only noticeable when removed from the slipcase. Otherwise, a very nice set contained in two slipcases which are lightly scuffed.
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Front cover
Contents
- CONTENTS OF ALL SEVEN VOLUMES:
- ADAM BEDE
- Introduction
- BOOK FIRST
- 1 The Workshop
- 2 The Preaching
- 3 After the Preaching
- 4 Home and Its Sorrow
- 5 The Rector
- 6 The Hall Farm
- 7 The Dairy
- 8 A Vocation
- 9 Hetty's World
- 10 Dinah Visits Lisbeth
- 11 In the Cottage
- 12 In the Wood
- 13 Evening in the Wood
- 14 The Return Home
- 15 The Two Bedchambers
- 16 Links
- BOOK SECOND
- 17 In Which the Story Pauses a Little
- 18 Church
- 19 Adam on a Working Day
- 20 Adam Visits the Hall Farm
- 21 The Night-School and the Schoolmaster
- BOOK THIRD
- 22 Going to the Birthday Feast
- 23 Dinner-time
- 24 The Health Drinking
- 25 The Games
- 26 The Dance
- BOOK FOURTH
- 27 A Crisis
- 28 A Dilemma
- 29 The Next Morning
- 30 The Delivery of the Letter
- 31 In Hetty's Bedchamber
- 32 Mrs Poyser 'Has Her Say Out'
- 33 More Links
- 34 The Betrothal
- 35 The Hidden Dread
- BOOK FIFTH
- 36 The Journey in Hope
- 37 The Journey in Despair
- 38 The Quest
- 39 The Tidings
- 40 The Bitter Waters Spread
- 41 The Eve of the Trial
- 42 The Morning of the Trial
- 43 The Verdict
- 44 Arthur's Return
- 45 In the Prison
- 46 The Hours of Suspense
- 47 The Last Moment
- 48 Another Meeting in the Wood
- BOOK SIXTH
- 49 At The Hall Farm
- 50 In the Cottage
- 51 Sunday Morning
- 52 Adam and Dinah
- 53 The Harvest Supper
- 54 The Meeting on the Hill
- 55 Marriage Bells
- Epilogue
- THE MILL ON THE FLOSS
- Introduction
- BOOK FIRST
- Boy and Girl
- 1 Outside Dorlcote Mill
- 2 Mr Tulliver, of Dorlcote Mill, Declares his Resolution about Tom
- 3 Mr Riley Gives his Advice concerning a School for Tom
- 4 Tom is Expected
- 5 Tom Comes Home
- 6 The Aunts and Uncles are Coming
- 7 Enter the Aunts and Uncles
- 8 Mr Tulliver Shows his Weaker Side
- 9 To Garum Firs
- 10 Maggie Behaves Worse than she Expected
- 11 Maggie Tries to Run Away from Her Shadow
- 12 Mr And Mrs Clegg at Home
- 13 Mr Tullver Further Entangles the Skein of Life
- SECOND BOOK
- School-Time
- 1 Tom's 'First Half'
- 2 The Christmas Holidays
- 3 The New Schoolfellow
- 4 'The Young Idea'
- 5 Maggie's Second Visit
- 6 A Love-Scene
- 7 The Golden Gates are Passed
- BOOK THIRD
- The Downfall
- 1 What had Happened at Home
- 2 Mrs Tulliver's Teraphim, or Household Gods
- 3 The Family Council
- 4 A Vanishing Gleam
- 5 Tom Applies his Knife to the Oyster
- 6 Tending to Refute the Popular Prejudice against the Present of a Pocket-Knife
- 7 How a Hen Takes to Stratagem
- 8 Daylight on the Wreck
- 9 An Item Added to the Family Register
- BOOK FOURTH
- The Valley of Humiliation
- 1 A Variation of Protestantism Unknown to Bossuet
- 2 The Torn Nest is Pierced by the Thorns
- 3 A Voice from the Past
- BOOK FIFTH
- Wheat and Tares
- 1 The Red Deeps
- 2 Aunt Glegg Learns the Breadth of Bob's Thumb
- 3 The Wavering Balance
- 4 Another Love-Scene
- 5 The Cloven Tree
- 6 The Hard-Won Triumph
- 7 A Day of Reckoning
- BOOK SIXTH
- The Great Temptation
- 1 A Duet in Paradise
- 2 First Impressions
- 3 Confidential Moments
- 4 Brother and Sister
- 5 Showing that Tome had Opened the Oyster
- 6 Illustrating the Laws of Attraction
- 7 Philip Re-enters
- 8 Wakem in a New Light
- 9 Charity in Full Dress
- 10 The Spell Seems Broken
- 11 In the Lane
- 12 A Family Party
- 13 Borne Along by the Tide
- 14 Waking
- BOOK SEVENTH
- The Final Rescue
- 1 The Return to the Mill
- 2 St Ogg's Passes Judgement
- 3 Showing that Old Acquaintances are Capable of Surprising Us
- 4 Maggie and Lucy
- 5 the Last Conflict
- Conclusion
- SILAS MARNER
- Introduction
- SILAR MARNER: THE WEAVER OF RAVELOE
- SCENES OF CLERICAL LIFE
- The Sad Fortunes of the Rev, Amos Barton
- Mr Gilfil's Love-Story
- Janet's Repentance
- ROMOLA
- Illustrator's Note
- Introduction
- Proem
- BOOK ONE
- 1 The Shipwrecked Stranger
- 2 A Breakfast for Love
- 3 The Barber's Shop
- 4 First Impressions
- 5 The Blind Scholar and his Daughter
- 6 Dawning Hopes
- 7 A Learned Squabble
- 8 A Face in the Crowd
- 9 A Man's Ransom
- 10 Under the Plane Tree
- 11 Tit's Dilemma
- 12 The Prize is Nearly Grasped
- 13 The Shadow of Nemisis
- 14 The Peasant's Fair
- 15 The Dying Message
- 16 A Florentine Joke
- 17 Under the Loggia
- 18 The Portrait
- 19 The Old Man's Hope
- 20 The Day of the Betrothal
- BOOK TWO
- 21 Florence Expects a Guest
- 22 The Prisoners
- 23 Afterthoughts
- 24 Inside the Duomo
- 25 Outside the Duomo
- 26 The Garment of Fear
- 27 The Young Wife
- 28 The Painted Record
- 29 A Moment of Triumph
- 30 The Avenger's Secret
- 31 Fruit is Seed
- 32 A Revelation
- 33 Baldassarre Makes an Acquaintance
- 34 No Place for Repentance
- 35 What Florence was Thinking of
- 36 Ariadne Discrowns Herself
- 37 The Tabernacle Unlocked
- 38 The Black Marks Become Magical
- 39 A Supper in the Rucellai Gardens
- 40 An Arresting Voice
- 41 Coming Back
- BOOK THREE
- 42 Romola in her Place
- 43 The Unseen Madonna
- 44 The Visible Madonna
- 45 At the Barber's Shop
- 46 By a Street Lamp
- 47 Check
- 48 Counter Check
- 49 The Pyramid of Vanities
- 50 Tessa Abroad and at Home
- 51 Monna Brigida's Conversation
- 52 A Prophetess
- 53 On San Miniato
- 54 The Evening and the Morning
- 55 Waiting
- 56 The Other Wife
- 57 Why Tito was Safe
- 58 A Final Understanding
- 59 Pleading
- 60 The Scaffold
- 61 Drifting away
- 62 The Benediction
- 63 Ripening Schemes
- 64 The Prophet in his Cell
- 65 The Trial by Fire
- 66 A Masque of The Furies
- 67 Waiting by the River
- 68 Romola's Waking
- 69 Homeward
- 70 Meeting Again
- 71 The Confession
- 72 The Last Silence
- Epilogue