Middlemarch is a complex tale of idealism, disillusion, profligacy, loyalty and frustrated love. This penetrating analysis of the life of an English provincial town during the time of social unrest prior to the Reform Bill of 1832 is told through the lives of Dorothea Brooke and Dr Tertius Lydgate and includes a host of other paradigm characters who illuminate the condition of English life in the mid-nineteenth century. Henry James described Middlemarch as a 'treasure-house of detail' while Virginia Woolf famously endorsed George Eliot's masterpiece as 'one of the few English novels written for grown-up people'
| ISBN: | 9781840228724 |
| Publication date: | 1st January 2025 |
| Author: | George Eliot |
| Publisher: | Wordsworth Editions an imprint of Wordsworth Editions Ltd |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 936 pages |
| Series: | Wordsworth Collector's Editions |
| Genres: |
Classic fiction: general and literary |