Middlemarch
$33.51
- Paperback
880 pages
- Release Date
5 May 2003
Summary
George Eliot’s most ambitious novel is a masterly evocation of diverse lives and changing fortunes in a provincial community.
Peopling its landscape are Dorothea Brooke, a young idealist whose search for intellectual fulfillment leads her into a disastrous marriage to the pedantic scholar Casaubon; the charming but tactless Dr Lydgate, whose marriage to the spendthrift beauty Rosamund and pioneering medical methods threaten to undermine his career; and the religious hypocrite Bulstrod…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141439549 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141439548 |
| Author: | George Eliot, Rosemary Ashton |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 880 |
| Release Date: | 5 May 2003 |
| Weight: | 610g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 132mm x 38mm |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
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“One of the few English novels written for grown-up people” – Virginia Woolf“The most profound, wise and absorbing of English novels…and, above all, truthful and forgiving about human behavior.” – Hermione Lee
About The Author
George Eliot
Mary Ann Evans (George Eliot) (1819-80) was a philosopher, journalist and translator before she became a novelist, her first stories being published in 1856. She led an unconventional life, co-editing the liberal journal Westminster Review for three years and living with the married man and philosopher George Henry Lewes. Her novels are among the greatest of the nineteenth century.
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