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Middlemarch
George Eliot
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Description for Middlemarch
Paperback. Features Dorothea Brooke; Dr Lydgate; spendthrift Fred Vincy; and steadfast Mary Garth. This book explores a fictional nineteenth-century Midlands town in the midst of modern changes. Num Pages: 800 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 147 x 36. Weight in Grams: 794.
Considered one the masterpieces of realist fiction, George Eliot's novel, Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life, explores a fictional nineteenth-century Midlands town in the midst of modern changes. The quiet drama of ordinary lives and flawed choices are played out in the complexly portrayed central characters of the novel-the idealistic Dorothea Brooke; the ambitious Dr. Lydgate; the spendthrift Fred Vincy; and the steadfast Mary Garth. The appearance of two outsiders further disrupts the town's equilibrium-Will Ladislaw, the spirited nephew of Dorothea's husband, the Rev. Edward Casaubon, and the sinister John Raffles, who threatens to expose the hidden past of one ... Read more
Considered one the masterpieces of realist fiction, George Eliot's novel, Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life, explores a fictional nineteenth-century Midlands town in the midst of modern changes. The quiet drama of ordinary lives and flawed choices are played out in the complexly portrayed central characters of the novel-the idealistic Dorothea Brooke; the ambitious Dr. Lydgate; the spendthrift Fred Vincy; and the steadfast Mary Garth. The appearance of two outsiders further disrupts the town's equilibrium-Will Ladislaw, the spirited nephew of Dorothea's husband, the Rev. Edward Casaubon, and the sinister John Raffles, who threatens to expose the hidden past of one ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Condition
New
Number of Pages
800
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780143107729
SKU
9780143107729
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About 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
Reviews for Middlemarch
Middlemarch, the magnificent book which with all its imperfections is 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 behaviour.
Hermione Lee No Victorian novel approaches Middlemarch ... Read more
Virginia Woolf The most profound, wise and absorbing of English novels . . . and, above all, truthful and forgiving about human behaviour.
Hermione Lee No Victorian novel approaches Middlemarch ... Read more