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Middlemarch

Middlemarch

Eliot, George
Ashton, Rosemary
Ashton, Rosemary

Paperback

Series: Penguin Classics

Classic FictionGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $12.00

ISBN10: 0141439548
ISBN13: 9780141439549
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Published: Mar 25 2003
Pages: 880
Weight: 1.30
Height: 1.60 Width: 5.10 Depth: 7.70
Language: English
The classic Victorian masterpiece that paints a magnificent portrait of a provincial town and its inhabitants in the midst of modern changes

In Middlemarch, George Eliot explores a fictional nineteenth-century Midlands town facing immense political, cultural, and societal change. The quiet drama of ordinary lives and flawed choices are played out in the complexly portrayed central characters of the novel--the idealistic Dorothea Brooke; the ambitious Dr. Lydgate; the spendthrift Fred Vincy; and the steadfast Mary Garth. The appearance of two outsiders further disrupts the town's equilibrium--Will Ladislaw, the spirited nephew of Dorothea's husband, the Rev. Edward Casaubon, and the sinister John Raffles, who threatens to expose the hidden past of one of the town's elite.

Middlemarch displays Eliot's clear-eyed yet humane understanding of characters caught up in the mysterious unfolding of self-knowledge. This Penguin Classics edition uses the second edition of 1874 and features an introduction and notes by Eliot biographer Rosemary Ashton. In her introduction, Ashton discusses themes of social change in Middlemarch, and examines the novel as an imaginative embodiment of Eliot's humanist beliefs.

Penguin Classics is the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world, representing a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

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