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BBC: The George Eliot Collection (Middlemarch / Daniel Deronda / Silas Marner / Adam Bede / The Mill on the Floss) -- 993 Minutes
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993 Minutes, 5 Discs.
From an online reviewer:
"George Eliot (Mary Anne Evans) penned many stories and all are worth reading. These wonderful performances do justice to her work. No expense looks spared and the locations are so atmospheric that it all adds to the strong story lines and character development. It is a collection of Victorian life studies worth owning. There is an additional feature called A Scandalous Life...guess who...talk about a woman with real courage...she lived her own life against all the constraints of her time which is hard to fathom in today's world of "free everything". Women lived confined...most authors of the day were men...women wrote romances, so Mary Anne created her "George Eliot" to be taken seriously. You will recognize many of the performers including Sir Ben Kingsley as Silas Marner. The price is great for the set...you won't be disappointed!"
From another online reviewer:
"My partner and I knew very little about George Eliot. We found the collection to be a treasure. Our favorites were Middlemarch and Daniel Deronda. Mary Anne Evans was really a diamond in the rough!"
From BBC:
Mary Ann Evans, writing as George Eliot, produced a number of critically acclaimed popular novels in the mid-19th century. This BBC collection features many of Great Britain's best modern actors in beautiful productions of Silas Marner, Adams Bede, Mill on the Floss, Middlemarch, and Daniel Deronda. Among those featured are Hugh Bonneville and Ben Kingsley. Also includes George Eliot: A Scandalous Life.
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