ROUTLEDGE LIBRARY EDITIONS: GEORGE ELIOT Volume 1 GEORGE ELIOT GEORGE ELIOT IAN ADAM Firstpublishedin1969byRoutledge&KeganPaulLtd Thiseditionfirstpublishedin2016 byRoutledge 2ParkSquare,MiltonPark,Abingdon,OxonOX144RN andbyRoutledge 711ThirdAvenue,NewYork,NY10017 RoutledgeisanimprintoftheTaylor&FrancisGroup,aninforma business ©1969IanAdam Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthisbookmaybereprintedor reproducedorutilisedinanyformorbyanyelectronic,mechanical, orothermeans,nowknownorhereafterinvented,including photocopyingandrecording,orinanyinformationstorageor retrievalsystem,withoutpermissioninwritingfromthepublishers. Trademarknotice:Productorcorporatenamesmaybetrademarksor registeredtrademarks,andareusedonlyforidentificationand explanationwithoutintenttoinfringe. BritishLibraryCataloguinginPublicationData AcataloguerecordforthisbookisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary ISBN:978-1-138-18544-9(Set) ISBN:978-1-315-64431-8(Set)(ebk) ISBN:978-1-138-18200-4(Volume1)(hbk) ISBN:978-1-315-64661-9(Volume1)(ebk) Publisher’sNote Thepublisherhasgonetogreatlengthstoensurethequalityofthis reprintbutpointsoutthatsomeimperfectionsintheoriginalcopies maybeapparent. Disclaimer Thepublisherhasmadeeveryefforttotracecopyrightholdersand wouldwelcomecorrespondencefromthosetheyhavebeenunableto trace. George Eliot by Ian Adam LONDON ROUTLEDGE & KEGAN PAUL NEW YORK; HUMANITIES PRESS First published 1969 by Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd Broadway House, 68-74 Carter Lane London E.C.4 Printed in Great Britain by Northumberland Press Ltd Gateshead © Jan Adam r969 No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without permission from the publisher, except for the quotation of brief passages in criticism SBN 7100 6736 4 (c) SBN 7100 6735 6 (p) Contents GEORGE ELIOT-HER LIFE AND WORKS I SCHEME OF EXTRACTS 8 MILIEU 9 1 Adam Bede, ch. 6 10 2 The Mill on the Floss, Bk. I, ch. 12 13 3 The Mill on the Floss, Bk. VII, ch. 2 16 4 Silas Marner, ch. 3 I9 5 Middlemarch, ch. 45 2I 6 Middlemarch, ch. 84 25 7 Daniel Deronda, ch. 5 29 8 Daniel Deronda, ch. 50 32 T H E A P P R 0 A C H T 0 C H A R ACT E R 34 9 Adam Bede, ch. 26 35 IO The Mill on the Floss, Bk. IV, ch. 3 37 I I The Mill on the Floss, Bk. V, ch. 2 39 I 2 Middlemarch, ch. I 42 I3 Middlemarch, ch. 23 45 14 Middlemarch, ch. 29 48 I5 Daniel Deronda, ch. 28 52 I6 Daniel Deronda, ch. 69 55 DIALOGUE 57 I 7 Adam Bede, ch. I6 58 I8 Adam Bede, ch. 53 61 vii CONTENTS 19 The Mill on the Floss, Bk. I, ch. 7 20 Felix Holt, ch. r 2r Middlemarch, ch. r2 22 Middlemarch, ch. 45 23 Daniel Deronda, ch. 22 24 Daniel Deronda, ch. 48 NARRATIVE 85 25 Adam Bede, ch. 36 86 26 The Mill on the Floss, Bk. I. ch. ii 88 27 Silas Marner, ch. r2 94 28 Middlemarch, ch. 42 97 29 Middlemarch, ch. 70 roo 30 Daniel Deronda, ch. 40 105 31 Daniel Deronda, ch. 54 107 SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY viii