If we had a keen vision & feeling of all ordinary human life' Dorothea is bright beautiful & rebellious Lydgate is the ambitious new doctor in town Both of them long to make a positive difference in the world But their stories do not proceed as expected & both they & the other inhabitants of Middlemarch must struggle to reconcile themselves to their fates & find their places in the world Middlemarch contains all of life the rich & the poor the conventional & the radical literature & science politics & romance but above all it gives us a vision of what lies within the human heart the roar on the other side of silence ...

Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith these delectable & 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 & 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 & pioneering medical methods threaten to undermine his career; & the religious hypocrite Bulstrode hiding scandalous crimes from his past As their stories interweave George Eliot creates a richly nuanced & moving drama hailed by Virginia Woolf as 'one of the few English novels written for adult people' ...

The most ambitious narrative of nineteenth-century realism Middlemarch tells the story of an entire town in the years leading up to the Reform Bill of 1832 a time when modern methods were starting to challenge old orthodoxies Eliot's sophisticated & acute characterization gives rich expression to every nuance of feeling & vividly brings to life the town's inhabitants
- including the young idealist Dorothea Brooke the dry scholar Casaubon the young passionate reformist doctor Lydgate the flighty young beauty Rosamond & the old secretive banker Bulstrode
- as they move in counterpoint to each other Art religion politics society science human relationships in all their complexity nothing is left unexamined under the narrator's microscope One of the greatest novels written in the English language Middlemarch is a literary landmark in its groundbreaking approach as well as a priceless document of its age

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Introduction & Notes by Doreen Roberts Rutherford College University of Kent at Canterbury Middlemarch is a complex tale of idealism disillusion profligacy loyalty & frustrated love This penetrating analysis of the life of an English provincial town during the time of social unrest prior to the Reform Bill of 1832 is told through the lives of Dorothea Brooke & Dr Tertius Lydgate &

Includes:: a host of other paradigm characters who illuminate the condition of English life in the mid-nineteenth century Henry James described Middlemarch as a treasurehouse of detail' while Virginia Woolf famously endorsed George Eliot's masterpiece as one of the few English novels written for grown-up people

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George Eliot's masterpiece groundbreaking in its psychological insight into powerful clashes of obligation & desire Middlemarch is edited with notes & an introduction by Rosemary Ashton in Penguin Classics George Eliot's most ambitious novel is a masterly evocation of diverse lives & changing fortunes in a provincial English community prior to the Reform Bill of 1832 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; the charming but tactless Dr Lydgate whose marriage to the spendthrift beauty Rosamund & pioneering medical methods threaten to undermine his career; passionate idealistic & penniless artist Will Ladislaw; & the religious hypocrite Bulstrode hiding scandalous crimes from his past As their stories interweave George Eliot creates a richly nuanced & moving drama This edition uses the text of the second edition of 1874 In her introduction Rosemary Ashton biographer of George Eliot discusses the themes of change in Middlemarch & examines the novels as an imaginative embodiment of Eliot's humanist beliefs Mary Ann Evans (1819-80) began her literary career as a translator & 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 & Daniel Deronda If you enjoyed Middlemarch you might like Charles Dickens's Bleak House also available in Penguin Classics' No Victorian novel approaches Middlemarch in its width of reference its intellectual power or the imperturbable spaciousness of its narrative'V S Pritchett' One of the few English novels written for adult people' Virginia Woolf ...

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I was born twice first as a baby girl on a remarkably smogless Detroit day of January 1960; & then again as a teenage boy in an emergency room near Petoskey Michigan in August of l 974' So begins the breathtaking story of Calliope Stephanides & her truly unique family secret born on the slopes of Mount Olympus & passed on through three generations Growing up in 70s Michigan Calliope's special inheritance will turn her into Cal the narrator of this intersex inter-generational epic of immigrant life in 20th century America Middlesex won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Thriller set in Ireland based on religion & the goodevil struggle Gabriel (Matthew Mac Fadyen) plays a preacher who returns to his hometown to find it&s become a den of iniquity His own sister-in-law runs a slummy drinking den that is open on the sabbath cock fights street brawls & gambling are nightly occurrences & Gabriel is for none of it Considering it his personal duty to rid the place of Beelzebub & his handmaidens at once he starts in on his own family He soon has neighbour pitted against neighbour & the town in uproar A dark tale about the pitfalls of fundamentalism & piety ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play An explosive & gripping thriller about ambition & betrayal Middletown is the powerful tale of two brothers battling for the heart & soul of their hometown Matthew Macfadyen plays Gabriel a preacher who returns to Middletown the place of his birth & childhood memories after a long absence only to find that things are not as they used to be Actors Matthew Macfadyen Daniel Mays Gerard Mc Sorley Sorcha Cusack Richard Dormer & Chalene Mc Kenna Director Brian Kirk Certificate 15 years & over Year 2006 Screen Widescreen 169 Anamorphic Languages English
- Dolby (20) Stereo Duration 1 hour 25 minutes (approx)
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