The Penguin English Library Edition of Middlemarch by George EliotShe did not know then that it was Love who had come to her briefly as in a dream before awaking,with the hues of morning on his wings - that it was Love to whom she was sobbing her farewell as his image was banished by the blameless rigour of irresistible day.
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'.
Publisher: Penguin Books LtdISBN: 9780141199795Number of pages: 944Weight: 620 gDimensions: 198 x 126 x 46 mm
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