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 ...

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 & 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 Penguin English Library
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