George Eliot

Summaries of books by George Eliot.

Middlemarch

George Eliot · 1871

Idealistic Dorothea marries dry scholar Casaubon while ambitious doctor Lydgate marries Rosamond, and a Midlands town watches both marriages strain.

2,883-word summary · 13 min read

Silas Marner

George Eliot · 1861

A falsely accused weaver hoards gold in Raveloe until a stolen hoard and an abandoned child remake his narrow life.

2,699-word summary · 12 min read