Middlemarch

Description

Product ID:	9780141196893
Product Form:	Hardback
Country of Manufacture:	GB
Series:	Penguin Clothbound Classics
Title:	Middlemarch
Authors:	Author: George Eliot
Page Count:	880
Subjects:	Classic fiction: general and literary, Classic fiction (pre c 1945)
Description:	Select Guide Rating 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. 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
Imprint Name:	Penguin Classics
Publisher Name:	Penguin Books Ltd
Country of Publication:	GB
Publishing Date:	2011-06-02

Weight	1010 g
Dimensions	156 × 204 × 51 mm