Middlemarch

by George Eliot
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‘Plain women he regarded as he did the other severe facts of life, to be faced with philosophy and investigated by science’ Middlemarch

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  • Middlemarch Paperback ISBN: 9780099516231 Published: 03/09/2007 Imprint: Vintage Classics Extent: 912 pages Subject: Classics $12.95 RRP
  • Middlemarch Paperback ISBN: 9780553211801 Published: 15/01/1992 Imprint: Bantam US Subject: Classics $11.95 RRP Buy Now
  • Middlemarch EBook ISBN: 9781407066066 Published: 01/02/2011 Imprint: Vintage Digital Extent: 912 pages Subject: Classics $12.95 RRP Buy Now

Synopsis

Dorothea is bright, beautiful and rebellious and has married the wrong man. Lydgate is the ambitious new doctor in town and has married the wrong woman. Both of them long to make a positive difference in the world. But their stories do not proceed as expected and both they, and the other inhabitants of Middlemarch, must struggle to reconcile themselves to their fates and find their places in the world.Middlemarch contains all of life: the rich and the poor, the conventional and the radical, literature and science, politics and romance. Eliot’s novel is a stunningly compelling insight into the human struggle to find contentment.

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Oprah Chooses MIDDLEMARCH by George Eliot

by Random House Australia on 9 June 2009

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The Oprah Show chooses George Eliot's masterpiece, MIDDLEMARCH, as their next classic book to read. Read more about this book choice on the Oprah website >

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Vintage Classics A-Z

by Meredith Curnow on 4 February 2012

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Editorial Reviews

"Perhaps the greatest novel of them all... An enormous canvas and a vast and poignant range of character...a marvellous portrait of nineteenth-century provincial life" - Joanna Trollope

"Another great romantic story, in which the adorable intellectually pretentious heroine makes a disastrous marriage to a desiccated fossil before finding true love with a penniless somebody" - Jilly Cooper

"In Middlemarch George Eliot's serious intelligence produced a novel that no one else could have been capable of - a picture of society as an organic, living, breathing synthesis - order and disorder, hope and hopelessness, pride and humility, charity and greed." - Kate Atkinson

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