One of the BBC's'100 Novels That Shaped Our World''One of the few English novels written for grown-up people'Virginia WoolfGeorge 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
Publisher: Penguin Books LtdISBN: 9780141439549Number of pages: 880Weight: 580 gDimensions: 196 x 128 x 38 mm
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"One of the few English novels written for grown-up people" - Virginia Woolf"The most profound,wise and absorbing of English novels...and,above all,truthful and forgiving about human behavior." - Hermione Lee
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