Middlemarch by George Eliot (Wordsworth Classics)

Explore George Eliot's masterpiece, Middlemarch, presented in this Wordsworth Classics paperback edition. This novel offers a penetrating analysis of life in an English provincial town during the period of social unrest leading up to the Reform Bill of 1832. Discover a complex narrative weaving together themes of idealism, disillusionment, loyalty, and frustrated love through the lives of central characters like Dorothea Brooke and Dr. Tertius Lydgate.

• Author: George Eliot
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: New Edition (Released 1993-12-05)
• Introduction and Notes by Dr. Keith Carabine (Series Editor) and Doreen Roberts (Rutherford College, University of Kent at Canterbury)
• Praised by Virginia Woolf as "one of the few English novels written for grown-up people."
• Described by Henry James as a ‘treasurehouse of detail.’

Middlemarch illuminates the condition of English life in the mid-nineteenth century through a host of paradigm characters alongside its primary focus on Dorothea Brooke and Dr. Tertius Lydgate. This edition includes scholarly contributions to enhance the reading experience.

• Brand/Publisher: Wordsworth Editions
• Language: English
• Print Length: 736 pages
• ISBN-10: 1853262374
• ISBN-13: 978-1853262371
• Dimensions: 127mm x 198mm x 40mm (Approx. 5 in x 7.8 in x 1.6 in)
• Weight: 1.05 kg (1050g)
• EAN: 8601200830040
• Data di uscita: 05.12.1993

This essential piece of Literary Fiction, ranked highly among Classics, is a must-have addition for any serious reader of English literature.