Dimensions
129 x 198 x 45mm
A Study of Provincial Life
England in the throes of reform: a town's landscape irrevocably altered; individual destinies and community life transformed.
George Eliot's greatest novel is a tale of many marriages centering on the town of Middlemarch. A complex web, Middlemarch society is woven of myriad lives: the ardent idealist Dorothea Brooke, seeking to reform the world; the ambitious medical man Tertius Lydgate, dedicated to scientific research; the traditional Vincy and Garth families; and the outsiders like exotic will Ladislaw, and Raffles whose secrets reveal the sordid past of one of the town's most reputable citizens.
Looking back to the turbulent years immediately preceding the Reform Bill of 1832, 'Middlemarch' dramatises the pressures of political, economic and cultural change in this microcosm of English society.
This is the most comprehensive edition available, with introduction, notes, selected criticism, text summary and chronology of George Eliot's life and times.
