MIDDLEMARCH

George Eliot

ISBN 10: 0141439548 / ISBN 13: 9780141439549

Published by Penguin Classics, New York, 2003

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Very Good+ in wraps. Light creasing on spine and rear panel top corner. ; 880 pages. Seller Inventory # 318494

Bibliographic Details

Title: MIDDLEMARCH

Publisher: Penguin Classics, New York

Publication Date: 2003

Binding: Softcover

Edition: First Edition Thus; Second Printing.

About this title

Synopsis:

One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World'

'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

About the Author:

Mary Ann Evans (George Eliot) (1819-80) was a philosopher, journalist and translator before she became a novelist, her first stories being published in 1856. She led an unconventional life, co-editing the liberal journal Westminster Review for three years and living with the married man and philosopher George Henry Lewes. Her novels are among the greatest of the nineteenth century