Middlemarch

George Eliot, Rosemary Ashton

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PENG
15 April 2011

Literature, Poetry & Criticism; Classic fiction (pre c 1945)

Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics

George Eliot's masterful classic, in a gorgeous new clothbound edition

Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design.

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
Imprint: PENG
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 206mm, Width: 138mm, Spine: 52mm
Weight: 997g
ISBN: 9780141196893
ISBN 10: 0141196890
Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics
Pages: 880
Publication Date: 15 April 2011
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
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

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