Middlemarch

George Eliot, Rosemary Ashton, Rosemary Ashton

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Penguin Classics
05 May 2003

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'.

By: George Eliot
Introduction by: Rosemary Ashton
Edited by: Rosemary Ashton
Imprint: Penguin Classics
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 37mm
Weight: 596g
ISBN: 9780141439549
ISBN 10: 0141439548
Pages: 880
Publication Date: 05 May 2003
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Mary Ann Evans (1819-80) began her literary career as a translator and later editor of the Westminster Review. In 1857, she published SCENES OF CLERICAL LIFE, the first of eight novels she would publish under the name of 'George Eliot', including THE MILL ON THE FLOSS, MIDDLEMARCH, and DANIEL DERONDA. Rosemary Ashton is Professor of English Language and Literature at University College London.

Reviews for Middlemarch

One of the few English novels written for grown-up people -- Virginia Woolf The most profound, wise and absorbing of English novels...and, above all, truthful and forgiving about human behavior. -- Hermione Lee