This is a 127 Page breakdown of 7 books from George Eliot or also the pseudonym of Mary Ann (later Marian) Evans.This study aid gives detail summaries, including plots, character analysis, themes, symbols, quotations, and key facts from the work. Here are the Books:
BOOK ONE: BOY AND GIRL
BOOK TWO: SCHOOL-TIME
BOOK THREE: THE DOWNFALL
BOOK FOUR: THE VALLEY OF HUMILIATION
BOOK FIVE: WHEAT AND TARES
BOOK SIX: THE GREAT TEMPTATION
BOOK SEVEN: THE FINAL RESCUE
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Example From "Boy and Girl" Chapter 1
Summary
The novel opens with a description of the countryside around the town of St. Ogg's and the river Floss. Impersonal description quickly gives way to a more personal tone, and we see that the story is to be a personal reminiscence of a narrator whose character we do not yet know. The narrator notes a wagon passing the mill, and watches a little girl and her dog playing near the water. They remind the narrator of "one February afternoon many years ago" and Mr. and Mrs. Tulliver sitting by the fire in their parlor.
Commentary
Note the introductory images: the Floss hurries to meet the "loving tide" in an "impetuous embrace." This first sentence contains images which will be used and strengthened throughout the book. Note too how closely the activity of the river is connected with that of the land-"the distant ships seems to be lifting their masts and stretching their redbrown sails close among the branches of the spreading ash."
The little girl and her dog who appear here are a symbol, in the narrator's mind, of the story which is to follow, in which Maggie Tulliver is so often seen with her dog Yap.
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