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George Eliot Middlemarch (Paperback) Penguin English Library. Title: Middlemarch. George Eliot's most ambitious novel is a masterly evocation of diverse lives and changing fortunes in a provincial community. 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'. Further DetailsTitle: Middlemarch Condition: New Author: George Eliot Format: Paperback ISBN-10: 0141199792 EAN: 9780141199795 ISBN: 9780141199795 Publisher: Penguin Classics Genre: Fiction Topic: Classic Fiction Release Date: 09/27/2012 Description: One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World' The Penguin English Library Edition of Middlemarch by George Eliot 'She did not know then that it was Love who had come to her briefly as in a dream before awaking, with the hues of morning on his wings - that it was Love to whom she was sobbing her farewell as his image was banished by the blameless rigour of irresistible day' 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'.The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War. Language: English Country/Region of Manufacture: GB Item Height: 198mm Item Length: 129mm Item Width: 39mm Item Weight: 640g Series: Penguin English Library Release Year: 2012 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
