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George Eliot

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in Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England, The United Kingdom

November 22, 1819

Died

December 22, 1880

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Literature & Fiction, Poetry, Journalism

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Mary 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.
Middlemarch was described by the novelist Virginia Woolf as "one of the few English novels written for grown-up people" and by Martin Amis and Julian Barnes as t ...more

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Average rating: 3.87 · 385,610 ratings · 24,147 reviews · 2,059 distinct works • Similar authors

	Middlemarch 4.02 avg rating — 162,659 ratings — published 1871 — 3427 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Silas Marner 3.68 avg rating — 86,881 ratings — published 1861 — 1757 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Mill on the Floss 3.82 avg rating — 55,266 ratings — published 1860 — 3233 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Daniel Deronda by George Eliot, Edmund White (Introduction) 3.86 avg rating — 25,756 ratings — published 1876 — 1316 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Adam Bede 3.82 avg rating — 25,343 ratings — published 1859 — 2633 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Romola 3.76 avg rating — 4,489 ratings — published 1863 — 88 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Felix Holt: The Radical by George Eliot, Lynda Mugglestone (Editor) 3.71 avg rating — 4,152 ratings — published 1866 — 432 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Lifted Veil 3.40 avg rating — 4,507 ratings — published 1878 — 283 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Scenes of Clerical Life by George Eliot, Thomas A. Noble (Editor) 3.79 avg rating — 3,088 ratings — published 1857 — 483 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Silas Marner and Two Short Stories 3.96 avg rating — 948 ratings — published 1861 — 51 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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2015 3rd Quarter Long Read Poll, July-September

1605, Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. 982 pages

12 votes, 28.6%

1901, Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family by Thomas Mann, 731 pages

10 votes, 23.8%

1872, Middlemarch by George Eliot, 904 pages

3 votes, 7.1%

1915, Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham, 684 pages

3 votes, 7.1%

1981, Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie, 647 pages

3 votes, 7.1%

1847, Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray, 867 pages

3 votes, 7.1%

1920, The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy, 872 pages

2 votes, 4.8%

1982, North and South by John Jakes, 812 pages

2 votes, 4.8%

1943, The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand, 720 pages

2 votes, 4.8%

1984, Lincoln by Gore Vidal, 672 pages

1 vote, 2.4%

1972, Captains and the Kings by Taylor Caldwell, 816 pages

1 vote, 2.4%

42 total votes

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