George Eliot
6 Bücher
- Gwendolen Harleth at the roulette table, spoiled and scared underneath, might be Eliot's sharpest piece of psychology, and watching her marriage to the coldly polite Grandcourt tighten around her is genuinely chilling. It's long and the Deronda half moves slower, but it rewards patience.
- You spend eight hundred pages in a provincial town where nothing huge happens, and somehow you end up caring desperately whether Dorothea will waste herself on the dried-up scholar Casaubon. Eliot understands why smart people make bad choices better than anyone.
- You have to settle into its dense Renaissance Florence, but Romola rewards you with a woman growing beyond her sheltered life while Tito Melema’s charm curdles and Savonarola’s certainty presses in. It’s morally serious, richly observed, and best when you want a slow, thoughtful read.
- A lonely weaver counts his gold every night until it's stolen, and what wanders in to replace it changes him completely. Quiet and slow in the best way, and short enough that the sweetness never wears thin.
- Silas, un tejedor expulsado de su congregación, vive solo acumulando su oro hasta que se lo roban y, una noche de invierno, una niñita de pelo dorado entra sola en su cabaña. La novela corta de George Eliot es cálida, sabia y discretamente divertida sobre la vida de pueblo.
- Maggie Tulliver will get under your skin, all that hunger for books and love in a family that punishes her for both, and her bond with her stiff brother Tom will quietly wreck you. Fair warning, it's slow to start and it ends in heartbreak.