Middlemarch by George Eliot
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 fulfilment leads her into a disastrous marriage to the pedantic scholar Casaubon; the charming but tactless Dr Lydgate, whose pioneering medical methods, combined with an imprudent marriage to the spendthrift beauty Rosamond, threaten to undermine his career; and the religious hypocrite Bulstrode, hiding scandalous crimes from his past. As their stories interweave, George Eliot creates a richly nuanced and moving drama, hailed by Virginia Woolf as 'one of the few English novels written for grown-up people'.
This edition uses the text of the second edition of 1874. In her introduction, Rosemary Ashton, biographer of George Eliot, discusses themes of change in Middlemarch, and examines the novel as an imaginative embodiment of Eliot's humanist beliefs.
Paperback | 880 pages
19.7 x 12.9 x 3.3 | 608g -
06 Jan 1994
Penguin Books Ltd
London, United Kingdom
0140433880
9780140433883
Condition: Good
A vintage book that has been read but is in good condition. Very minimal damage to the cover, including a very faint, small crease on the top-left corner of the back cover, but no holes or tears. The majority of pages are undamaged, with very minimal creasing, but no tearing. There is a tiny amount of discolouring, most of which is only visible on the book's block when book is shut. No pencil underlining of text, no highlighting of text, no writing in margins. No missing pages.