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Middlemarch: Un estudio de la vida en provincias es una novela de George Eliot, el seudónimo de Mary Anne Evans, llamada posteriormente Marian Evans.

Middlemarch: Un estudio de la vida en provincias es una novela de George Eliot, el seudónimo de Mary Anne Evans, llamada posteriormente Marian Evans.

Gwendolen Harleth es la mayor de cinco hermanas, que la admiran. Es hermosa, egoísta y malcriada, y cree poseer grandes cualidades. Cortejada por los jóvenes de su localidad, su destino cambiará cuando...

El velo alzado (1859) es una nouvelle con sorprendentes elementos góticos y fantásticos que uno no suele asociar con la autora de Middlemarch. En ella, el joven Mortimer, un melancólico que tiene «la...

"Si tuviéramos una visión y un sentimiento agudos de toda la vida humana ordinaria, sería como oír crecer la hierba y latir el corazón de la ardilla, y moriríamos a causa de rugido que se encuentra al...

Dorothea Brooke, a los diecinueve años, ha recibido «una educación para jovencitas comparable a las cavilaciones y opiniones de un ratón pensante», pero, activa e idealista, enamorada de un sesudo erudito...

«Nunca había visto nada parecido a la veracidad exquisita y a la delicadeza tanto del humor como del pathos de estas historias; y me han impresionado de una manera que me sería muy difícil expresar.»...

En El velo alzado hay un narrador que descubre algo anormal; en su caso, la habilidad para leer el futuro y también los pensamientos ajenos. Aunque claro: lo que al principio puede ser una maravilla,...

El hermano Jacob (1860) se inicia con una cita de La Fontaine que advierte contra los falsarios y usurpadores: a través de la peripecia de David Faux (que, de aprendiz de pastelero, aspira a ser un gran...

Inspirada en gran parte en los recuerdos de la infancia de la autora, que transcurrió en las propiedades paternas de Warwickshire junto a su hermano Isaac, El molino del Floss gira en torno al desigual...

Punzante, entretenidísima y profundamente lúcida, George Eliot parodia las tópicas novelas que dominaban los listados de ventas de su tiempo, con sus encantadoras y hermosas heroínas, y sus previsibles...

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