Evelia Farias

Born into the brutal reality of the antebellum South, one woman’s battle for bodily autonomy and freedom will echo through the ages. In this powerful and gripping true story, Harriet Jacobs—writing under the pseudonym Linda Brent—exposes the horrific,...

Before you can change the world, you must survive the drawing room.In the quiet, gossiping lanes of 19th-century provincial England, nineteen-year-old Dorothea Brooke is a dangerous anomaly. She is beautiful, wealthy, and entirely consumed by a...

In the seemingly sleepy town of Middlemarch, a storm of ambition, hypocrisy, and desperate romance is brewing.A young doctor with revolutionary ideals. A charming heir drowning in secret debts. A beautiful woman with a dark, hidden past.In Book Two of...

Scandal has come to Middlemarch, and no one will escape its shadow.In this riveting, deeply emotional climax to George Eliot's sweeping masterpiece, the fragile social fabric of a provincial English town is torn apart by devastating secrets. Dr....

A tragic twist of fate. A predatory aristocrat. And one woman's desperate fight for purity in a corrupt world. When an impoverished peddler discovers he is the lineal descendant of the ancient and noble d'Urberville family, he sends his beautiful,...

A marriage built on intellectual ideals becomes a prison of expectation in this devastatingly poignant installment of George Eliot’s masterwork.In Middlemarch Book 5: The Dead Hand, the fragile threads holding the town's interwoven lives together are...

To Those who Appreciate Wistaria and Sunshine...On a miserable, rain-soaked February afternoon in London, four very different women are drawn together by a singular desire: escape. Among them are the timid Mrs. Wilkins and the devoutly sad Mrs....

A young governess, a remote country estate, and a sinister presence that threatens the souls of the children in her care.When an inexperienced young woman is hired to serve as the governess for two orphaned children—the beautiful, angelic Flora and...

In the quiet, calculating world of a provincial English town, the deepest wars are fought in sitting rooms and hushed libraries.Dorothea Casaubon is finally free from a loveless marriage—but trapped by the terms of her late husband's cruel will. A...

A roaring cyclone. A land of vibrant magic and wicked danger. One impossible path back home.Plucked from the bleak, gray prairies of Kansas, young Dorothy Gale and her faithful dog Toto are hurled across the sky into the wondrous Land of Oz. But this...

Where there is a will, there is a war.In the quiet, gossiping circles of provincial England, nothing stirs the blood quite like the reading of a dead man's testament. But when old Peter Featherstone is finally laid to rest, the shocking revelations of...

In the intricately woven society of Middlemarch, the threads of respectability are beginning to snap.What happens when the life you promised yourself becomes a cage of your own making?In Book 7: Two Temptations of George Eliot's masterpiece, the...

In the provincial town of Middlemarch, every action casts a long, inescapable shadow. In Book 3: Waiting for Death, George Eliot pulls the threads of her sweeping masterpiece tighter, revealing the devastating consequences of pride, debt, and...