George Eliot's seventh and perhaps most famous novel almost didn't get written! It took birth as a short novella titled Miss Brooke but she was unhappy with its progress and...

TS Eliot Background Poetry consists of readings of TS Eliot poems by Karen. Each week she will select a different Eliot poem to read along with different background sounds. Look...

Harold Transome is a landowner who goes against his familys political tradition (much to his mothers distress), while Felix Holt is a sincere radical. The setting of the book, the...

A young carpenter falls in love with the village beauty. She, however, has set her sights on a dashing army captain who's the son of the wealthy local squire. Meanwhile, a...

One of the most memorable scenes in this novel occurs in Chapter Twelve, when the dejected and desolate Silas Marner steps outside his lonely cottage on New Year's Eve. He suffers...

The George Eliot Country Audio Tour podcasts celebrate the 150th anniversary of the publication of George Eliot's first work of fiction Scenes of Clerical Life. They take us to...

A lovely young woman gambling at a casino in Leubronn, Germany. A young man watches, fascinated from afar. She begins to lose heavily and leaves the casino. Thus opens the last...

Narrated by the "AI Insider" guru of self-driving cars, Dr. Lance B. Eliot, this podcast series covers the key aspects of self-driving cars, including high-tech, business trends,...

The Waste Land is T. S. Eliots Modernist masterpiece, first published in 1920. Rich in allusions to Shakespeare, Dante, Baudelaire, the Bible, Marvell, Buddha, and the folklore of...

A lonely boy is taken in by the friendly inhabitants of a little house in the woods. Through this adventure, he finds the fairy folk, nature, and happiness. (Summary by A. Gramour)