George Eliot's Middlemarch is a classic reading book that critically depicts the lives and relationships within a provincial community. Published by Penguin Classics, this work focuses on themes such as intellectual growth and the consequences of personal choices.
Description
The story follows Dorothea Brooke, a young idealist whose search for intellectual fulfillment leads to a problematic marriage with the pedantic scholar Casaubon. At the same time, it highlights the sharp contrasts within provincial life, including the young doctor Lydgate, whose pioneering medical methods and marriage to the expensive Rosamund threaten his career.
This novel, part of BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World', offers a subtle analysis of human frailties and changing circumstances. With careful editing and an extensive introduction by Rosemary Ashton, it is an essential part of the literary canon.
Product specifications
- Author: George Eliot
- Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
- Imprint: Penguin Classics
- Binding type: B-format paperback
- Release date: 30 January 2003
- Number of pages: 880
- ISBN: 9780141439549
- Theme: Classic fiction: literary and general
- BISAC: FICTION / Classics
About the author
Mary Ann Evans, better known by the pen name George Eliot (1819-1880), was first a philosopher, journalist, and translator before she broke through internationally as a novelist. Her body of work belongs to the most important of the nineteenth century and is characterized by sharp social observations.