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Read by Hannah Gordon (Abridged: 2hrs 25mins) George Eliot opens her complex study of life in the provincial Midlands with a brilliant portrait of Dorothea Brooke in all her strengths and weaknesses. Dorothea’s misguided marriage is only one of the many, at first seemingly quite separate, stories of thwarted ideals,...
Read by Hannah Gordon (Abridged: 2hrs 24mins) The action starts and ends on the River Floss at Dorlcote Mill, home to the Tullivers for generations. But, for all the mill's beauty, Maggie Tulliver, the heroine, finds family life intolerably narrow. The Tullivers, for so long solidly prosperous, are soon beset...
Read by Hannah Gordon (Abridged: 2hrs 25mins) The fictitious landscape of Loamshire provides the setting for this country tragedy, with little peace about the intertwined lives of its inhabitants. Dinah Morris is an earnest Methodist preacher who rejects Seth Bede for a life devoted to God. Adam Bede, his brother,...
Read by Geraldine James (Abridged: 2hrs 23mins) Although set in the heart of rural England, in a place still untouched by industrial development or social upheaval, Silas Marner is no idyllic country tale. Eliot depicts village life good and bad: Silas’s suspicious neighbours are far from perfect and both the...
Read by Ghizela Rowe (Unabridged: 1hr) Poetry is a fascinating use of language. With almost a million words at its command it is not surprising that these Isles have produced some of the most beautiful, moving and descriptive verse through the centuries. In this series we look at individual poets...
For these authors, the truth has many versions and perspectives Read by David Shaw-Parker, Liza Ross & Christopher Ragland(Unabridged: 9hrs 54mins) Featuring stories by George Eliot, J M Barrie, Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Edgar Allan Poe, J M Barrie & more. Our journey through the arc and pages of a book...
Celebrate the true pioneers of female literatureRead by Laurel Lefkow, Ghizela Rowe, Richard Mitchley(Unabridged: 11:43mins)Featuring stories by George Eliot, Francis Stevens, Violet Jacob, Clotilde Graves, Louisa Baldwin, Emily Bronte & many moreLet’s be clear. We are all equal under the law. However, even in these more modern times that is...
Read by Ghizela Rowe & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 15mins) Featuring poems by Tagore, George Eliot, WB Yeats & others. Love. What is love? The question is asked by each of us but the answer remains elusive. Dictionaries summon up many words but none fulfill. Love itself is often ethereal, felt but...
Selected products from George Eliot By the nineteenth century, female writers had begun to make considerable advances into the world of literature, a world hitherto dominated by men. Their writing was being taken more seriously, and there was a far greater market for it. However, the well...
A collection of quotes on emotion. “Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.” Rumi "Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity." Thomas Hardy “I can resist anything except temptation.” Oscar Wilde "Pain must enter into its glorified life...