THE BEST-KNOWN NOVELS OF
GEORGE ELIOT

Adam Bede
The Mill on the Floss
Silas Marner
Romola

For the past year or two there has been a phenomenal revival of interest in the novels of George Eliot. Contemporary readers are making the discovery that her writings provide far more than a mere picture of nineteenth-century manners; they are aglow with the fire of great personalities in revolt against the prejudices and restrictions of their time; they are stories of deep human insight and compassion, universal in their appeal and as alive today with problems personal and of the world as they were seventy-five years ago.  To bring together within the covers of a single book four such novels as Adam Bede, The Mill on the Floss, Silas Marner and Romola is an achievement only possible in the Modern Library Giant format. Students in our universities, colleges and high schools need no longer rely on scattered volumes which cost at least four times as much. The general reader, too, will find this volume a source of infinite pleasure at an infinitesimal cost.