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"This classic novel, first published in 1860, tells the story of Maggie Tulliver,Intelligent and headstrong but trapped by the conventions of family tradition and rural life, Maggie is one of

In rural nineteenth-century England, a weaver, lonely and embittered at the unjust treatment he has received from people he considered to be his friends, finds his only solace in money until he ina

Sisters Dorothea and Cecilia live in genteel poverty in an English village.

Hailed for its sympathetic and accurate rendering of nineteenth-century English pastoral life, Adam Bede was George Eliot's first full-length novel and a bestseller from the moment of publicat

"Through Dorothea and other townsfolk, Eliot shows how various human passions interrelate with Victorian society."--Container.

Children's Poet Laureate J. Patrick Lewis crafts poetic portraits of civil rights luminaries in this important work.