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Middlemarch
By Eliot, George|Roberts, Doreen|Roberts, Doreen
Middlemarch
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- 9781853262371
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Authors:
Eliot, George|Roberts, Doreen|Roberts, Doreen
Copyright:
2000
Format:
Paperback
GTIN13:
9781853262371
ISBN10:
1853262374
Page Count:
736
Dimensions:
5.0x1.56x7.78
Publisher:
Wordsworth Editions
Jacket Notes:
In a panoramic sweep of the years leading up to the First Reform Bill of 1832, George Eliot explores nearly every subject of concern to modern life: art, religion, science, politics, self, society, human relationships. Among her characters are some of the most remarkable portraits in English literature: Dorothea Brooke, the heroine, idealistic but naive; Rosamund Vincy, beautiful and egoistic; Edward Casaubon, the dry-as-dust scholar; Tertius Lydgate, the brilliant but morally flawed physician; the passionate artist, Will Ladislaw; and Fred Vincy and Mary Garth, childhood sweethearts whose charming courtship is one of the many humorous elements in the novel's comic vein.
Strand Notes
Penetrating analysis of the life an English provincial town set during the time of social unrest prior to the first Reform Bill of 1832. 688p. Pap.
Description
Introduction and Notes by Doreen Roberts, Rutherford College, University of Kent at Canterbury.
Middlemarch is a complex tale of idealism, disillusion, profligacy, loyalty and frustrated love. This penetrating analysis of the life of an English provincial town during the time of social unrest prior to the Reform Bill of 1832 is told through the lives of Dorothea Brooke and Dr Tertius Lydgate and includes a host of other paradigm characters who illuminate the condition of English life in the mid-nineteenth century.
Henry James described Middlemarch as a 'treasurehouse of detail' while Virginia Woolf famously endorsed George Eliot's masterpiece as 'one of the few English novels written for grown-up people.
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