George Eliot
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English
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Silas Marner is accused of stealing funds from his small Christian congregation. Presumed guilty by his community and rejected by the woman he loves, Silas leaves and lives as a recluse near Raveloe village. He takes refuge only in working and attaining wealth, until his precious gold is stolen from him. But a child, her mother found dead in the snow, is thrust into his life, changing it completely. Ultimately, Silas Marner is a redeeming
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"George Eliot's beloved masterpiece in a Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition with a foreword by Rebecca Mead, author of the bestselling memoir My Life in Middlemarch A triumph of realist fiction, George Eliot's Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life explores a fictional nineteenth-century Midlands town in the midst of sweeping change. The proposed Reform Bill, the new railroads, and scientific advances are threatening upheaval on every front. Against...
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Series
Works volume 6
Publisher
D. Estes
Pub. Date
[n.d.]
Edition
Illustrated sterling ed.
Physical Desc
442, 492 p.
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English
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English
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"Gwendolen Harleth, an exceptionally beautiful upper-class Englishwoman, is gambling boldly at a resort when she catches the eye of a handsome, pensive gentleman. His gaze unnerves her, and she loses her winnings. The next day, she learns that her widowed mother and younger sisters, for whom she is financially responsible, have lost their family's fortune. As a young woman in the 1860s with only her looks to serve her, Gwendolen's options are few,...
13) Adam Bede
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 102 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Adam Bede, an honest, hard-working carpenter, has his heart set on marrying his sweetheart, pretty dairymaid Hetty Sorrel. Hetty wants nothing to do with her boring life on the farm and she allows herself to be seduced by the heir to a local estate. She finds herself abandoned and pregnant from her ill-fated dalliance.
14) The Manning girl
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Regal House Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
285 pages ; 21 cm
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English
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"1992. Tyler Manning-- high school teacher, part-time farmer, bachelor of 38--is planning his first day of summer vacation when a strange car approaches his Kansas farmhouse. By the time the battered Ford departs, Tyler is holding a three-week-old infant. The baby's father is his estranged brother. Woven throughout the narrative of May Manning's upbringing--assisted by long-time neighbors and school colleagues--is the parallel story of Tyler and his...
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Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Silas Marner was a man who had everything, until he lost it all. Falsely accused of theft and driven out of his town, Silas starts life anew. One day, upon arriving home, he discovers a child asleep on the hearth.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 212 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
The tragic tale of Maggie Tulliver, the miller's daughter, who defies her embittered brother in standing by the man she loves - shocking the stifling society in which she lives - in an attempt to pursue her blighted dreams.
17) Daniel Deronda
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Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2007
Edition
Widescreen format (16:9).
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (210 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
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Daniel Deronda, a sensitive young Englishman of indistinct parentage, is forced to choose between the love of two very different women.
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Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (210 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
Daniel Deronda is a sensitive, intelligent, young man haunted by secrets that shroud his birth. Gwendolen Harleth is a beautiful gambler short on cash. When the two meet, sparks fly.