Complete and unabridged, with 59 full-page plates by Sebastian Pether, John Constable and J. M. W. Turner. The first substantial study of George Eliot, published three years after her death - the life, the novels and the philosophy, by an American who read her as a moralist rather than a scandal. Bound with the text are 59 plates of painting, a profile portrait of George Eliot among them, alongside English and American landscapes by Constable, Turner and Thomas Cole.