Meet the residents of Middlemarch and view human nature as a number of relationships unfold. George Eliot set her novel some 40 years before it was written, and her overview of the times ensures a full-bodied novel with political and social commentary. She allows us to see flaws, she opens up the reality and frailty of human emotions and yet I don’t feel as though she makes judgement which makes this such a wonderful novel to sink into and experience.
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| Primary Genre | Classic fiction: general and literary |
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'One of the few English novels written for grown-up people' Virginia Woolf
George Eliot's nuanced and moving novel is a masterly evocation of connected lives, changing fortunes and human frailties 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; 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.
Edited with an Introduction and notes by ROSEMARY ASHTON
Middlemarch features in the following genres: Classic fiction: general and literary, General Fiction, Fiction
Middlemarch is available in Hardback, Paperback
Middlemarch was written by George Eliot, Rosemary Ashton and published by Penguin Classics an imprint of Penguin Books Ltd
Middlemarch has 880 pages
Yes it is part of Penguin Clothbound Classics series
£22.50
