Eliot's Silas Marner (1861) is a story of alienation and betrayal that nevertheless has comedic elements.
Adam Bede, which was hugely successful when Eliot published it in 1859, tells the story of Hetty Sorrel—a young woman who is seduced, has a baby, and neglects it so that it dies—and of Adam Bede, who loves her.
Middlemarch (1872), widely considered Eliot's most ambitious work, presents a clash between individuals' aspirations and.....
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