Middlemarch: George Eliot

George Eliot’s most ambitious novel is a masterly evocation of diverse lives and changing fortunes in a provincial community. It centers on Dorothea Brooke, a young idealist whose search for intellectual fulfilment leads to a disastrous marriage to the pedantic scholar Casaubon, and expands to the lives of Dr. Lydgate, whose medical ambitions are tested by an imprudent marriage to Rosamond, and the hypocritical Bulstrode hiding a troubled past. The narrative is renowned for its nuanced portrayal of connected lives, human frailties, and the moral complexities of a small-town world. The work has been celebrated as one of the novels that shaped our world and has been praised by writers such as Virginia Woolf.

Edited with an Introduction and notes by Rosemary Ashton, the edition presents George Eliot’s expansive saga in a substantial hardcover form.

• 880 pages
• Edition: 01
• Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
• Hardcover edition
• Includes introduction and notes
• Written by George Eliot

Features

• Masterly evocation of connected lives
• Set in a provincial community
• Dorothea Brooke and Casaubon at center
• Dr Lydgate and Rosamond’s fragile union
• Bulstrode’s hidden past and hypocrisy
• Edited by Rosemary Ashton