Middlemarch (Penguin Classics)

Middlemarch (Penguin Classics)

George Eliot'sÂ Victorian masterpiece:Â a magnificent portrait of a provincial town and its inhabitants

George Eliotâ€™s novel,Â Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life, explores a fictional nineteenth-century Midlands town in the midst of modern changes. The proposed Reform Bill promises political change; the building of railroads alters both the physical and cultural landscape; new scientific approaches to medicine incite public division; and scandal lurks behind respectability. The quiet drama of ordinary lives and flawed choices are played out in the complexly portrayed central characters of the novelâ€”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 townâ€™s equilibriumâ€”Will Ladislaw, the spirited nephew of Dorotheaâ€™s husband, the Rev. Edward Casaubon, and the sinister John Raffles, who threatens to expose the hidden past of one of the townâ€™s elite.Â MiddlemarchÂ displays George Eliotâ€™s clear-eyed yet humane understanding of characters caught up in the mysterious unfolding of self-knowledge.Â 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 inÂ Middlemarch, and examines the novel as an imaginative embodiment of Eliot's humanist beliefs.

For more than sixty-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,500Â titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust theÂ series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-dateÂ translations by award-winning translators.
Country USA
Brand Penguin
Manufacturer Penguin Classics
Binding Paperback
PartNumber 1721260
Color Grey
Height 7.79526
Length 5.07873
Weight 1.32056894938
Width 1.41732
ReleaseDate 2003-03-25
NumberOfItems 1

Country	USA
Brand	Penguin
Manufacturer	Penguin Classics
Binding	Paperback
PartNumber	1721260
Color	Grey
Height	7.79526
Length	5.07873
Weight	1.32056894938
Width	1.41732
ReleaseDate	2003-03-25
NumberOfItems	1

Middlemarch (Penguin Classics)

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