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One of the BBC''s ''100 Novels That Shaped Our World''

''One of the few English novels written for grown-up people'' Virginia Woolf

George Eliot''s nuanced and moving novel is a masterly evocation of connected lives, changing fortunes and human frailties in a provincial community. 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; Dr Lydgate, whose pioneering medical methods, combined with an imprudent marriage to the spendthrift beauty Rosamond, threaten to undermine his career; and the religious hypocrite Bulstrode, hiding scandalous crimes from his past.

Edited with an Introduction and notes by ROSEMARY ASHTON



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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Penguin Classics
      Published 2 June 2011
      ISBN-13 9780141196893
      978-0141196893
      ISBN-10 0141196890
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      One of the BBC''s ''100 Novels That Shaped Our World''

      ''One of the few English novels written for grown-up people'' Virginia Woolf

      George Eliot''s nuanced and moving novel is a masterly evocation of connected lives, changing fortunes and human frailties in a provincial community. 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; Dr Lydgate, whose pioneering medical methods, combined with an imprudent marriage to the spendthrift beauty Rosamond, threaten to undermine his career; and the religious hypocrite Bulstrode, hiding scandalous crimes from his past.

      Edited with an Introduction and notes by ROSEMARY ASHTON



      Trade Review
      "No Victorian novel approaches Middlemarch in its width of reference, its intellectual power, or the imperturbable spaciousness of its narrative."
      --V. S. Pritchett

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