Middlemarch (Penguin Classics S.)

by George Eliot (Author), RosemaryAshton (Illustrator)

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  Paperback
  1994

  $4.24

  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.

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  Paperback
  1988

  $3.25

  Written in 1871-2 and subtitled A study of provincial life , this novel depicts a Midlands community in the years immediately before the First Reform Bill of 1832. The scope of the novel goes beyond this description, ranging from psychological analysis to the larger movements of European culture and history. In addition the novel dramatizes and explores some of the myths of Victorian literature within the context of English provincial life at a crucial historical moment.

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  Hardcover
  1950

  $7.59

• New

  Paperback
  1992

  $39.56

  Middlemarch, by common consent one of the most important novels in English, has always stimulated outstanding criticism. Over the past twenty years or so, it has also become a favourite novel for consideration by critics wishing to develop and explore new ways of looking at the novel form. The excitement and originality of such criticism is reflected fully in this volume, which presents a whole range of current ways of looking at Middlemarch. The collection as a whole, along with a clear introduction and a guide to Further Reading, also provides a fascinating sense of how criticism of the novel is a continuing debate, as critics take up and dispute received views - in the process, offering us an endlessly renewed and fresh sense of Middlemarch. The collection as a whole, along with a clear introduction and a guide to Further Reading, also provides a fascinating sense of how criticism of the novel is a continuing debate, as critics take up and dispute received views - in the process, offering us an endlessly renewed and fresh sense of Middlemarch.