Eliot, George

Young Maggie Tulliver's loyalty to her beloved older brother, Tom, and to the rest of her family is fatally torn when she falls in love with the son of her father's bitterest enemy.

Set in early nineteenth-century English countryside, an English squire yields to the temptations of an innocent country girl and crime, remorse, and suffering are the consequences.

Based on a study of Florentine history (1492-1509). Lorenzi d? Medici and Savonarola are finely portrayed. A sternly tragic novel of temptation, crime and retribution.

The story of a young linen-weaver whose dreams are destroyed when he is falsely accused of a crime. Isolating himself, he becomes a selfish and despondent miser. Despair turns to hope when he adopts an abandoned child, but their happiness may end when her real father returns. Starring Ben Kingsley and Jenny Agutter.