Middlemarch (Penguin Classics) [paperback] Eliot, George,Ashton, Rosemary,Ashton, Rosemary [Jan 30, 2003] …

Middlemarch Paperback Book By George Elliot. Released by Penquin Classics Books in 2003, and is a reprint of the 1871 classic novel.George Eliot's most ambitious novel is a masterly evocation of diverse lives and changing fortunes in a provincial English community prior to the Reform Bill of 1832. Peopling its landscape are Dorothea Brooke, a young idealist whose search for intellectual fulfilment leads her into a disastrous marriage to the pedantic scholar Casaubon; the charming but tactless Dr Lydgate, whose marriage to the spendthrift beauty Rosamund and pioneering medical methods threaten to undermine his career; passionate, idealistic and penniless artist Will Ladislaw; and the religious hypocrite Bulstrode, hiding scandalous crimes from his past. As their stories interweave, George Eliot creates a richly nuanced and moving drama. Fantastic Condition 15 year old paperback novel, read only once and then retired to the book shelf. All orders received before 4.00pm Monday to Friday's are shipped the same day.