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  • Published: 5 May 2003
  • ISBN: 9780141908274
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 880
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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: 9780141908274
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 880
Categories:

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Persuasion
The Black Tulip
The Lady of the Camellias
On Sparta
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Annals
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