Middlemarch

Name: Middlemarch
Brand: Penguin Books Ltd
SKU: 9780141439549
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By George Eliot

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Middlemarch by George Eliot is a sweeping exploration of life in a provincial English town during the early 19th century. It intricately weaves the lives of its diverse characters, focusing on themes such as marriage, idealism, and social change. The novel examines personal ambitions, the struggle for women's education, and political reform, offering deep insights into human nature and society.
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If you appreciate richly detailed social commentary and intricate character studies, this novel might captivate you. Set in a fictional English town, it weaves together personal ambitions, societal changes, and the complexities of human relationships during the 19th century, offering a profound exploration of the human condition.

Middlemarch

Features Dorothea Brooke, a young idealist whose search for intellectual fulfilment leads her into a disastrous marriage to the pedantic scholar Casaubon; and the charming but tactless Dr Lydgate, whose marriage to the spendthrift beauty Rosamund and pioneering medical methods threaten to undermine his career.

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Middlemarch, George Eliot's most ambitious novel, is a masterly evocation of diverse lives and changing fortunes in a provincial community. It features a richly drawn cast of characters whose stories interweave to create a nuanced and moving drama.

Among its landscape are Dorothea Brooke, a young idealist whose search for intellectual fulfilment 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 Bulstrode, who hides scandalous crimes from his past.

This novel, hailed by Virginia Woolf as 'one of the few English novels written for adult people', offers a timeless exploration of human struggles and aspirations. Eliot's keen insights into societal norms and individual ambitions make Middlemarch a compelling and enduring work of literature.

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Middlemarch by George Eliot is lauded as a novel designed for mature readers, with Virginia Woolf praising it for its adult-centric themes. Hermione Lee regards it as a profound, wise, and enthralling English novel, notable for its truthful and forgiving portrayal of human behaviour.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780141439549

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 30 January 2003

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Penguin Classics

Contributors:

Edited by Rosemary Ashton
Introduction by Rosemary Ashton

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 36.0mm

Width: 129.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 599g

Pages: 880

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Fiction General Fiction George Eliot Literary Fiction

About the Author

Mary Ann Evans (1819-80) began her literary career as a translator and later editor of the Westminster Review. In 1857, she published SCENES OF CLERICAL LIFE, the first of eight novels she would publish under the name of 'George Eliot', including THE MILL ON THE FLOSS, MIDDLEMARCH, and DANIEL DERONDA. Rosemary Ashton is Professor of English Language and Literature at University College London.