One Hundred World's Best Novels Condensed

David Copperfield to Quo Vadis, Don Quixote to The War of the Worlds — a hundred of the world's great novels, each condensed to a brisk summary with its author's life story, as read in 1919.

George Eliot

5 pages in this part of 100 Best Novels Condensed.

George Eliot (Pen name of the famous English)

GEORGE ELIOT was the pen name of the famous English writer, Mary Ann (or Marian) Evans. She was born in 1819 at Arbury Farm in Warwickshire…

George Eliot (Memoirs of George Eliot two)

IN the memoirs of George Eliot two books are mentioned which have a special interest, one being the first book she ever read as a child…

George Eliot: Romola

It has been claimed that George Eliot's highly trained mind suppressed the impulsive heart. She suffered from bodily ills most all her…

George Eliot: Florence

George Eliot's magnificent study of character concerns itself with Florence at the time when Christopher Columbus was discovering America…

George Eliot: Tessa

Florence saw Tito Melema ever making his way upward from the day when he found himself adrift after shipwreck, and was carried to the…

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