Middlemarch

Eliot, George

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ISBN 10: 0141804513 ISBN 13: 9780141804514

Publisher: Penguin, 2003

Paperback. Pub Date: January. 2003 Publisher: Penguin Audiobooks; Unaidged George Eliot's MOST Ambitious novel is a masterly the of Evocation of DIVERSE LIVES and CHANGING to fortunes in a Provincial Community. Peopling of the its landscape are Dorothea ooke. A young idealist whose search for Intellectual Fulfillment 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. 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 adult people'.

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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 fulfillment 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, 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 adult people'.

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" No Victorian novel approaches Middlemarch in its width of reference, its intellectual power, or the imperturbable spaciousness of its narrative."
--V. S. Pritchett

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