http://anzlitlovers.wordpress.com/200... ( )

http://eloisebythebookpiles.blogspot.... ( )

George Eliot's first works of fiction that foreshadow a lot of her later work. I especially liked "Janet's Repentance" for its theme of confession and salvation.

Of course, after having read three of her complete novels those stories felt a bit incomplete and short, but they deal with specific individuals over a short span of time more than the larger breadth of a Middlemarch or Daniel Deronda. But the stories are already full of the Eliotic narrative sympathy and pity that will differentiate her so much from other Victorian authors.

I would reccomend those stories if someone wants to be introduced to Eliot's work without being able to read thick novels such as Middlemarch. ( )

http://www.lonelymountain.net/books/o... ( )