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COMPLETE NOVELS (7 VOLUMES)

Written by George Eliot
Published by Folio Society in 1999

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

Cover of COMPLETE NOVELS (7 VOLUMES) by George Eliot

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