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Middlemarch (Wordsworth Classics)
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Product Description
Felicia Bonaparte has provided a new Introduction for this updated edition of Eliot's greatest novel, the text of which is taken from David Carroll's Clarendon Middlemarch (1986), the first critical edition.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #2486 in Books
- Published on: 1993-12-01
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 736 pages
Editorial Reviews
Synopsis
This title inculdes introduction and notes by Doreen Roberts, Rutherford College, University of Kent at Canterbury. "Middlemarch" is a complex tale of idealism, disillusion, profligacy, loyalty and frustrated love. This penetrating analysis of the life of an English provincial town during the time of social unrest prior to the Reform Bill of 1832 is told through the lives of Dorothea Brooke and Dr Tertius Lydgate and includes a host of other paradigm characters who illuminate the condition of English life in the mid-nineteenth century.
About the Author
David Carroll is Professor of English Literature at the University of Lancaster. He edited George Eliot: The Critical Heritage (1971), and the Clarendon edition of Middlemarch (1986). He is joint General Editor of the Longman Literature in English Series.
Felicia Bonaparte is Professor of English at the City University of New York and has written extensively on George Eliot. Among her other publications is the experimental biography The Gypsy-Bachelor of Manchester: The Life of Mrs Gaskell's Demon (1992).
Customer Reviews
Simply the Best
Quite simply the greatest novel written in the English language. Beautifully written and full of insight into the human condition.
very good...but prefer Adam Bede
extremely good novel and would recommend...but i feel it was a bit over stretched in certain places..some characters i really loved and others just seemed to be there to pad certain plot development. Bit overlong too, however well worth reading (but i think Adam Bede far superior)
Outstanding
Virginia Woolf wrote that this was one of the few novels for grown-up people. It is indeed a mirror for maturity, George Eliot's greatest achievement.
