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Middlemarch

Introduction by E.S. Shaffer

By George Eliot
Introduction by E.S. Shaffer

By George Eliot
Introduction by E.S. Shaffer

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Part of Everyman's Library Classics Series

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Oct 15, 1991 | ISBN 9780679405672

Middlemarch by George Eliot
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Oct 15, 1991 | ISBN 9780679405672

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About Middlemarch

One of the most accomplished and prominent novels of the Victorian era, Middlemarch is an unsurpassed portrait of nineteenth-century English provincial life. Dorothea Brooke is a young woman of fervent ideals who yearns to effect social change yet faces resistance from the society she inhabits. In this epic in a small landscape, Eliot’s large cast of precisely delineated characters and the rich tapestry of their stories result in a wise, compassionate, and astute vision of human nature. As Virginia Woolf declared, George Eliot “was one of the first English novelists to discover that men and women think as well as feel, and the discovery was of great artistic moment.”

Introduction by E. S. Shaffer

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Mary Ann Evans was born on November 22, 1819, at Chilvers Coton, Warwickshire, England, the last child of an estate agent. During her girlhood, she went through a phase of evangelical piety, but her strong interest in philosophy and her… More about George Eliot

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Category: Literary Fiction | Fiction Classics | Historical Fiction

Hardcover | $28.00
Published by Everyman’s Library
Oct 15, 1991 | 936 Pages | 5 x 8 | ISBN 9780679405672
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"No Victorian novel approaches Middlemarch in its width of reference, its intellectual power, or the imperturbable spaciousness of its narrative."
–V. S. Pritchett

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