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Middlemarch
Middlemarch
Author: George Eliot, Rosemary Ashton (Editor)
It was George Eliot's ambition to create a world and portray a whole community -- tradespeople, middle classes, country gentry -- in the rising fictional provincial town of Middlemarch, circa 1830. Vast and crowded, rich in narrative irony and suspense, Middlemarch is richer still in character and in its sense of how individual destin...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780141439549
ISBN-10: 0141439548
Publication Date: 3/25/2003
Pages: 880
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  • Currently 3.9/5 Stars.
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3.9 stars, based on 34 ratings
Publisher: Penguin Books
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover, Audio Cassette, Audio CD
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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 first Reform Bill of 1832 is told through the lives of Dorothea Brooke and Dr. Tertius Lydate 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 'treasure-house 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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I had a hard time with all the description in this one. The main story line was good, but I just wanted Elliot to get to the point!
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