George Eliot: A Life - Tapa blanda

"This is an extremely impressive work which combines a thoroughness and wit with an economy of style ... a [biography of] is a remarkable woman of exceptional integrity whose life expresses the spirit of the Victorian Age." Rosemary Ashton illuminates our understanding of Eliot and reveals the choices and originality of a remarkable woman. Rosemary Ashton examines Adam Bede, Silas Marner, the Mill on the Floss, Felix Holt and the unsurpassed Middlemarch, which all explore the tension between the urge to conform and the imperatives of both the heart and the mind - a paradox which is reflected in George Eliot's life.