George Eliot's great novel creates a world and portrays a whole community - tradespeople, middle classes, country gentry - in the rising provincial town of Middlemarch, circa 1830.
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"Perhaps the greatest novel of them all... An enormous canvas and a vast and poignant range of character...a marvellous portrait of nineteenth-century provincial life"
"In Middlemarch George Eliot's serious intelligence produced a novel that no one else could have been capable of - a picture of society as an organic, living, breathing synthesis - order and disorder, hope and hopelessness, pride and humility, charity and greed."
In Middlemarch George Eliot gives us a portrait of provincial life in Victorian England that has never been surpassed.
Wit, irony, pathos and brilliant insight into human nature colour every strand of plot and every beautifully drawn character. Foremost among these and Dorothea Booke, passionate to use her spirit and talent in a wider world than that typically afforded to women in the 1830s; Casuabon, the dry, jealous academic; Doctor Lydgate, who dreams of pioneering research in medical science; spoilt, pretty Rosamond Vincy who sees as 'a man whom it would be delightful to enslave'.
The novel centres on the marriages of Dorothea and of Lydgate, and on the web of relationships that connects us to each other. While eagerly awaiting the next part of the Middlemarch serial in 1872, the Spectator critic declared that 'Middlemarch bids more than fair to be one of the great books of the world'.
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Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. Reprint; Twentieth Printing. Minor crease to rear cover. ; Twentieth printing of Penguin mass market edition. Nice tight flat copy, no names or marks inside, appears unread. Cover photo of cast members from the BBC adaptation. Very heavy book and priced accordingly. ; Penguin Classics; 912 pages; Life in a provincial town, as seen by George Elliot, is the background to what Virginia Woolf said was 'one of the few English novels written for grown-up people. Mass Market PB. Seller Inventory # 27903
Seller: The London Bookworm, East Sussex, United Kingdom
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Penguin TV Tie-In Edition. Paperback.Middlemarch is an acclaimed picture of life as it was lived at the tieme of the 1982 Reform Bill and the coming of the railways. At the heart of the novel are questions of vocation and marraige, sacrifice and dedication, compromise and ambition. 908 pp.(We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.). Seller Inventory # 059228
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Soft cover. Condition: Worn- Browned. Film and TV Tie-In Edition. Curled edges. Penguin Film and TV Tie-in edition. Bookmis a bit buckled. Seller Inventory # 071490
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Seller: Le-Livre, SABLONS, France
Couverture souple. Condition: bon. RO60120538: 1994. In-12. Broché. Bon état, Couv. légèrement pliée, Dos plié, Intérieur acceptable. 908 pages. Annotations au crayon dans le texte (ouvrage de travail). . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon. Seller Inventory # RO60120538