Middlemarch - Softcover

Eliot, George

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0099503786 ISBN 13: 9780099503781

Publisher: Vintage Classics, 2007

Synopsis

Bright, beautiful, and rebellious Dorothea has married the wrong man, and Lydgate—the ambitious new doctor in town—has married the wrong woman. Both of them long to make a positive difference in the world, but their lives do not proceed as expected. Along with the other inhabitants of Middlemarch, they must struggle to reconcile themselves to their fates and find their places in the world.

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One of the most accomplished and prominent novels of the Victorian era, Middlemarch is an unsurpassed portrait of nineteenth-century English provincial life. Dorothea Brooke is a young woman of fervent ideals who yearns to effect social change yet faces resistance from the society she inhabits. In this epic in a small landscape, Eliot's large cast of precisely delineated characters and the rich tapestry of their stories result in a wise, compassionate, and astute vision of human nature. As Virginia Woolf declared, George Eliot "was one of the first English novelists to discover that men and women think as well as feel, and the discovery was of great artistic moment."

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About this edition

• Publisher: Vintage Classics
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0099503786
• ISBN 13: 9780099503781
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 900