»The Sad Fortunes of the Reverend Amos Barton« is a novella by George Eliot, originally published in the collection Scenes of Clerical Life in 1857.

GEORGE ELIOT , pseudonym for MARY ANN EVANS [1819-1880], was an English novelist. Several of her works are considered among the most important in British literature within a realistic novel tradition. They often unfold in the English countryside and are characterized by a deeply empathetic psychological portrayal that was ahead of its time.