Middlemarch -- George Eliot

Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. George Eliot's most ambitious novel is a masterly evocation of diverse lives and changing fortunes in a provincial community. Peopling its landscape are Dorothea Brooke, a young idealist whose search for intellectual fulfillment leads her into a disastrous marriage to the pedantic scholar Casaubon; the charming but tactless Dr Lydgate, whose marriage to the spendthrift beauty Rosamund and pioneering medical methods threaten to undermine his career; and the religious hypocrite Bulstrode, hiding scandalous crimes from his past. As their stories interweave, George Eliot creates a richly nuanced and moving drama, hailed by Virginia Woolf as 'one of the few English novels written for adult people'.<br><br><b>Author:</b> George Eliot<br><b>Publisher:</b> Penguin Group<br><b>Published:</b> 04/26/2011<br><b>Pages:</b> 880<br><b>Binding Type:</b> Hardcover<br><b>Weight:</b> 2.20lbs<br><b>Size:</b> 7.90h x 5.30w x 2.00d<br><b>ISBN:</b> 9780141196893<br><br><b>Accelerated Reader:</b><br><b>Reading Level:</b> 10.4<br><b>Point Value:</b> 64<br><b>Interest Level:</b> Upper Grade<br><b>Quiz #/Name: </b>52114 / Middlemarch<br><br><p><b>About the Author</b><br>Mary Ann Evans (1819-80) began her literary career as a translator and later editor of the