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Middlemarch : Penguin Clothbound Classics : Design By Coralie Bickford-smith
Hardback Edition: 1/2011
George Eliot's most ambitious novel is 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'.
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Pages : 880
Publisher : Penguin Books
Publication date : 2011-06
Subjects: Fiction, Classics (pre C.1945), Contemporary, Historical Fiction