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Middlemarch
George Eliot
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Introduced by Penelope Fitzgerald.
Reprint in a new binding of the 1999 edition.
Bound in buckram and crushed silk with gold blocking.
Wood engravings by Simon Brett.
9" x 5¾".
George Eliot's epic novel of a manufacturing town and its inhabitants is widely acknowledged to be her masterpiece. Set in the 1830s, as small town and rural certainties give way before industrial and political transformations, Eliot interweaves the lives of an entire community. At the heart of the book is Dorothea, a well-off young woman who yearns towards a greater destiny. Dr Lydgate is also ambitious, dreaming of making great discoveries through his researches. For both, painful compromises must be made with their ideals.
Middlemarch is a vast novel, with nuanced and entwined plotlines which reveal a writer at the height of her powers. It was hailed by Virginia Woolf as 'one of the few English novels written for adult people'.
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