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Lingua:Libri ItalianiSeven years ago, Anne Elliot broke off her engagement to Captain Frederick Wentworth, convinced that marrying a man without money or status would be a grave mistake. Now, she is past her prime and single at twenty-seven. But when the estranged paramours reconnect through a couple renting the Elliot family estate, Anne discovers she may have another shot at romance—this time, on her terms.
Part fairy tale, part social commentary, Jane Austen’s novel delivers not only her signature warmth and wit but perhaps her most mature and relatable heroine. Persuasion remains true to Austen’s form in being ahead of its time, arguing that where there is love, there is happiness—even in the most impractical of unions.
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Revised edition: Previously published as Persuasion, this edition of Persuasion (AmazonClassics Edition) includes editorial revisions.
Silas Marner
The Mill on the Floss
Middlemarch
DANIEL DERONDA
Adam Bede
Romola
Brother Jacob
Pubblicato nel 1876, Daniel Deronda è l’ultimo, brillante romanzo di George Eliot, e forse il più controverso. In questo libro, infatti, la celebre autrice di Middlemarch offre uno dei più lucidi e feroci ritratti della politica e dell’imperialismo di età vittoriana, della discriminazione sessuale e razziale, della tolleranza religiosa e del pregiudizio. Daniel Deronda è un giovane benestante di bell’aspetto, la cui natura sensibile e altruista lo spinge ad aiutare chiunque intorno a lui si trovi in difficoltà: da una sala da gioco alla riva del Tamigi, fino a un piccolo negozio di antiquariato, Daniel incontra così l’altezzosa Gwendolen, la giovane Mirah e l’erudito Mordecai. Tra coincidenze ed eventi mondani, le loro vite si intrecciano a quella di Deronda, che cercherà di risollevare le loro sorti e che ne verrà a sua volta inaspettatamente trasformato. Affidato fin da piccolo a Sir Hugo Mallinger, Daniel non ha mai saputo chi fossero i suoi genitori, ma un incontro accidentale getterà nuova luce sulle sue origini. Le contraddizioni della bella e viziata Gwendolen, i difficili trascorsi della delicata Mirah e i sogni religiosi di Mordecai accompagnano Daniel Deronda verso la consapevolezza di sé e verso un’insperata felicità, sullo sfondo dei costumi dell’aristocrazia inglese. Attraverso una variegata galleria di personaggi umani, Eliot affronta in maniera esplicita il tema del sionismo e dell’antisemitismo, con tinte vivide a metà tra l’indagine morale e il tono satirico.
Con una storia avvincente, dalle situazioni dirompenti e dai personaggi indimenticabili, viene qui riproposta una delle più importanti scrittrici britanniche che, al pari di Jane Austen e Virginia Woolf, rientra a pieno titolo tra i classici della letteratura.
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The Harvard Classics:
V. 1: Franklin, Woolman & Penn
V. 2: Plato, Epictetus & Marcus Aurelius
V. 3: Bacon, Milton, Browne
V. 4: John Milton
V. 5: R. W. Emerson
V. 6: Robert Burns
V. 7: St Augustine & Thomas á Kempis
V. 8: Nine Greek Dramas
V. 9: Cicero and Pliny
V. 10: The Wealth of Nations
V. 11: The Origin of Species
V. 12: Plutarchs
V. 13: Æneid
V. 14: Don Quixote
V. 15: Bunyan & Walton
V. 16: 1001 Nights
V. 17: Folklore & Fable
V. 18: Modern English Drama
V. 19: Goethe & Marlowe
V. 20: The Divine Comedy
V. 21: I Promessi Sposi
V. 22: The Odyssey
V. 23: Two Years Before the Mast
V. 24: Edmund Burke
V. 25: J. S. Mill & T. Carlyle
V. 26: Continental Drama
V. 27 & 28: English & American Essays
V. 29: The Voyage of the Beagle
V. 30: Scientific Papers
V. 31: The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini
V. 32: Literary and Philosophical Essays
V. 33: Voyages & Travels
V. 34: French & English Philosophers
V. 35: Chronicle and Romance
V. 36: Machiavelli, Roper, More, Luther
V. 37: Locke, Berkeley, Hume
V. 38: Harvey, Jenner, Lister, Pasteur
V. 39: Prologues
V. 40–42: English Poetry
V. 43: American Historical Documents
V. 44 & 45: Sacred Writings
V. 46 & 47: Elizabethan Drama
V. 48: Blaise Pascal
V. 49: Saga
V. 50: Reader's Guide
V. 51: Lectures
The Shelf of Fiction:
V. 1 & 2: The History of Tom Jones
V. 3: A Sentimental Journey & Pride and Prejudice
V. 4: Guy Mannering
V. 5 & 6: Vanity Fair
V. 7 & 8: David Copperfield
V. 9: The Mill on the Floss
V. 10: Irving, Poe, Harte, Twain, Hale
V.11: The Portrait of a Lady
V. 12: Notre Dame de Paris
V. 13: Balzac, Sand, de Musset, Daudet, de Maupassant
V. 14 & 15: Goethe, Keller, Storm, Fontane
V. 16–19: Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Turgenev
V. 20: Valera, Bjørnson, Kielland
It’s the perfect match—gentleman lawyer Newland Archer will marry young socialite May Welland. The marriage should be a source of pride for Newland, accustomed as he is to meeting the expectations of New York’s high society. But when he falls for May’s exotic and enchanting cousin, Countess Ellen Olenska, he faces an impossible choice: should he be the dutiful husband and stay with his bride, or give in to his passions and follow the countess around the world?
A classic that encapsulates the etiquette of the times, The Age of Innocence is as much about loyalty, duty, and decorum as it is about desire.
Revised edition: Previously published as The Age of Innocence, this edition of The Age of Innocence (AmazonClassics Edition) includes editorial revisions.
This book has 41 pages and was originally published in 1859.
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This Publication Contains 16 of George Eliot's All Time Greatest Works.
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HOW LISA LOVED THE KING / Illustrated
FELIX HOLT, THE RADICAL / Illustrated
ADAM BEDE
BROTHER JACOB
DANIEL DERONDA
IMPRESSIONS OF THEOPHRASTUS SUCH
Middlemarch
Romola
Scenes of Clerical Life
SILAS MARNER
THE ESSAYS of GEORGE ELIOT
THE ESSENCE OF CHRISTIANITY
THE LIFTED VEIL
The Mill on the Floss
O MAY I JOIN THE CHOIR INVISIBLE! AND OTHER FAVORITE POEMS / Illustrated
GEORGE ELIOT'S LIFE as related in her Letters and Journals / Illustrated
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