
Middlemarch - Penguin Clothbound Classics (Hardback)
George Eliot (author), Rosemary Ashton (author of introduction)- 5+ in stock
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
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
ISBN: 9780141196893
Number of pages: 880
Weight: 1008 g
Dimensions: 204 x 138 x 54 mm
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