Bibliograph

Middlemarch, George Eliot ; edited with an introduction and notes by Rosemary Ashton

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Label

Middlemarch, George Eliot ; edited with an introduction and notes by Rosemary Ashton

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

novels

Main title

Middlemarch

Oclc number

703547303

Responsibility statement

George Eliot ; edited with an introduction and notes by Rosemary Ashton

Series statement

Penguin classics

Summary

"A masterly evocation of diverse lives and 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 and pioneering medical methods threaten to undermine his career; and the religious hypocrite Bulstrode, hiding scandalous crimes from his past. As their stories interweave, George Eliot creates a richly nuanced and moving drama, hailed by Virginia Woolf as 'one of the few English novels written for adult people'"-- Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

Book 1. Miss Brooke -- Book 2. Old and young -- Book 3. Waiting for death -- Book 4. Three love problems -- Book 5. The dead hand -- Book 6. The widow and the wife -- Book 7. Two temptations -- Book 8. Sunset and sunrise

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Middlemarch, a study of provincial life

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