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George Eliot

Born

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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	Middlemarch 4.03 avg rating — 173,056 ratings — published 1872 — 2488 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 3.69 avg rating — 91,100 ratings — published 1861 — 2728 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 3.83 avg rating — 57,619 ratings — published 1860 — 261 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 — 26,435 ratings — published 1876 — 860 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 — 25,979 ratings — published 1859 — 4 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 — 4,674 ratings — published 1863 — 1158 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 — 5,060 ratings — published 1859 — 1078 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 — 4,269 ratings — published 1866 — 461 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) 3.80 avg rating — 3,188 ratings — published 1857 — 431 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 3.95 avg rating — 967 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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2014 Third Quarter Long Read-Final Poll for Top Ten

1873, Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy, 964 pages

46 votes, 21.0%

1860, Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, 505 pages

26 votes, 11.9%

1878, The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 796 pages

24 votes, 11.0%

1954, The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien, 1178 pages

23 votes, 10.5%

1957, Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand, 1168 pages

23 votes, 10.5%

1844, The Count of Monte Cristo byAlexandre Dumas, 1276 pages

19 votes, 8.7%

1605, Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1169 pages

16 votes, 7.3%

1844, The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas, 786 pages

16 votes, 7.3%

1874, Middlemarch by George Eliot, 904 pages

14 votes, 6.4%

800BC, The Iliad by Homer, 683 pages

12 votes, 5.5%

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