ABSTRACT
In addition to the standard Cabinet Edition (1878-80), published under the editorial supervision of the author herself (see Criticism, p. 105), and the modern critical Clarendon Edition (1980-) (see Criticism, pp. 118-19), almost all of George Eliot’s works are easily available in numerous good and frequently reprinted paperback editions, most of which include useful introductions and notes. The Oxford World’s Classics series includes editions of the eight major fictions, as well as of ‘The Lifted Veil’ and ‘Brother Jacob’ and of Selected Critical Writings, while Penguin Classics offers the eight major fictions, ‘The Lifted Veil’ and ‘Brother Jacob’ and Selected Essays, Poems, and Other Writings. These should not be confused with the cheap Penguin Popular Classics editions of Adam Bede, The Mill on the Floss, Silas Marner and Middlemarch, which do not have the critical apparatus of the Penguin Classics editions and are therefore less useful for a serious student of George Eliot’s work. The Everyman Library includes, apart from editions of the eight major fictions (‘The Lifted Veil’ and ‘Brother Jacob’ are included in the same volume as Silas Marner), the only modern paperback edition of Impressions of Theophrastus Such (1995). There are also very useful Norton editions of The Mill on the Floss (1994) and Middlemarch (1977, 2000).
