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Andrew Wynford Davies (/ ˈ d eɪ v ɪ s /; born 20 September 1936) is a Welsh screenwriter and novelist, best known for his television adaptations of To Serve Them All My Days, House of Cards, Middlemarch, Pride and Prejudice, Bleak House, War & Peace, and his original serial A Very Peculiar Practice. [1]
In a 28 March 1994 review for The New York Times, Elizabeth Kolbert said the mini-series was a hit in Britain as it "mesmerized millions of viewers here, setting off a mini-craze for Victorian fiction. In its wake there were Middlemarch lectures, Middlemarch comics, even a wave of Middlemarch debates. Authors and columnists argued in the London ...
Middlemarch originates in two unfinished pieces that Eliot worked on during 1869 and 1870: the novel "Middlemarch " [a] (which focused on the character of Lydgate) and the long story "Miss Brooke" (which focused on the character of Dorothea). [4] The former piece is first mentioned in her journal on 1 January 1869 as one of the tasks for the ...
The screenwriter and Man Booker Prize-winning author of Atonement and Lessons on James Joyce, Middlemarch, and the book that made him miss a train stop. Ian McEwan on James Joyce, 'Middlemarch ...
Mary Ann Evans (22 November 1819 – 22 December 1880; alternatively Mary Anne or Marian [1] [2]), known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. [3] She wrote seven novels: Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), Romola ...
[3] [8] He often includes gay, bisexual, and Jewish characters in his work. [3] [9] Since the late 1990s, he has written in increasingly diverse styles for varied outlets; he is a notable defender of the merits of genre fiction and plot-driven fiction, and, along with novels, has published screenplays, children's books, comics, and newspaper ...
Daniel Deronda is a novel written by English author George Eliot, pen name of Mary Ann Evans, first published in eight parts (books) February to September 1876. [1] It was the last novel she completed and the only one set in the Victorian society of her day.
Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe is the third novel by English author George Eliot, pen name of Mary Ann Evans.It was published in 1861. An outwardly simple tale of a linen weaver, the novel is notable for its strong realism and its sophisticated treatment of a variety of issues ranging from religion to industrialisation to community.