Middlemarch : a study of provincial life / George Eliot ; With an Afterword by Frank Kermode.

By: Eliot, George, 1819-1880Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: Signet ClassicsPublication details: New York : A Signet Classic, 1981, 1964Description: xii, 832 p. ; 22 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 071149006956; 9780451517500Subject(s): Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Fiction | City and town life -- Fiction | Social reformers -- Fiction | Married people -- Fiction | Young women -- Fiction | Scholars -- Fiction | FICTION / Classics | FICTION / Literary | England -- FictionGenre/Form: Domestic fiction. | Didactic fiction. | Bildungsromans.DDC classification: 823.8 LOC classification: PR4662 | .A1 1981Summary: "George Eliot's beloved masterpiece in a Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition with a foreword by Rebecca Mead, author of the bestselling memoir My Life in Middlemarch A triumph of realist fiction, George Eliot's Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life explores a fictional nineteenth-century Midlands town in the midst of sweeping change. The proposed Reform Bill, the new railroads, and scientific advances are threatening upheaval on every front. Against this backdrop, the quiet drama of ordinary lives is played out by the novel's complexly portrayed characters--until the arrival of two outsiders further disrupts the town's equilibrium. Every bit as powerful and perceptive in our time as it was in the Victorian era, Middlemarch displays George Eliot's clear-eyed yet humane understanding of characters caught up in the mysterious unfolding of self-knowledge. In this elegant Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition, Rebecca Mead introduces the novel that shaped her life and reflects on its joys and its timeless relevance"--
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"George Eliot's beloved masterpiece in a Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition with a foreword by Rebecca Mead, author of the bestselling memoir My Life in Middlemarch A triumph of realist fiction, George Eliot's Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life explores a fictional nineteenth-century Midlands town in the midst of sweeping change. The proposed Reform Bill, the new railroads, and scientific advances are threatening upheaval on every front. Against this backdrop, the quiet drama of ordinary lives is played out by the novel's complexly portrayed characters--until the arrival of two outsiders further disrupts the town's equilibrium. Every bit as powerful and perceptive in our time as it was in the Victorian era, Middlemarch displays George Eliot's clear-eyed yet humane understanding of characters caught up in the mysterious unfolding of self-knowledge. In this elegant Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition, Rebecca Mead introduces the novel that shaped her life and reflects on its joys and its timeless relevance"--

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