- Published: 5 May 2003
- ISBN: 9780141439549
- Imprint: Penguin Classics
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 880
- RRP: $17.99
Middlemarch
The new paperback series: Penguin English Library
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'.
- Published: 5 May 2003
- ISBN: 9780141439549
- Imprint: Penguin Classics
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 880
- RRP: $17.99