Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1980. Collector's Edition. Hardcover. The true Collector's Edition, full brown leather binding with elaborate gilt decoration on covers and spine. All edge gilt, silk end papers, ribbon marker and nicely printed with clean, bright interior. A lovely edition not to be confused with the faux leather or cloth editions. ; Collector's Edition; 8vo; 472 pages .

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GEORGE ELIOT was born in Nuneaton on November 22, 1819. Baptized Mary Anne Evans, Eliot chose to write using a male pen name. She was sent away to school but returned when her mother died in 1836. She later moved to Coventry with her father. After her father's death she became the Assistant Editor of the Westminster Review in 1851. She also met George Henry Lewes this year and they became partners for the rest of his life. Lewes was already married, although he and his wife both considered their relationship to be an open one, but he and Eliot set up home together, much to the dismay of polite London society. In 1857 Eliot published Amos Barton in Blackwood's Magazine and in 1859 her novel Adam Bede was published to great acclaim. Her first attempt to write Middlemarch , her most famous novel, ended in failure. Abandoning it, she began a short novella entitled Miss Brooke which was eventually integrated into the final version of Middlemarch . The novel was published serially in eight parts in 1871. Lewes died in 1878 and Eliot married again in 1880. Her husband, John Walter Cross was an American who was twenty years her junior. George Eliot died on December 22, 1880 at 4 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea and is buried in Highgate Cemetery next to Lewes.

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Bookseller: Carlson Turner Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 45914
Title: THE MILL ON THE FLOSS
Author: Eliot, George
Illustrator: Wray Manning
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Near Fine with no dust jacket
Edition: Collector's Edition
Publisher: The Easton Press
Place of Publication: Norwalk, Connecticut
Date Published: 1980

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