Middlemarch by George Eliot

Middlemarch by George Eliot

A beautiful deluxe gift edition of Eliot's sweeping and romantic classic with foiled covers, marbled endpapers, sprayed edges, beautiful paper and finished with a silk ribbon.

Dorothea is bright, beautiful and rebellious. Lydgate is the ambitious new doctor in town. Both of them long to make a positive difference in the world. But their lives in the small town of Middlemarch do not proceed as expected and both they and the other inhabitants who live, work and gossip around them must struggle to reconcile themselves to their fates and find their places in the world.

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'Perhaps the greatest novel of them all..An enormous canvas and a vast and poignant range of character...a marvellous portrait of nineteenth-century provincial life'

Mary Anne Evans was born near Nuneaton on 22 November 1819. She adopted the pseudonym George Eliot when she began her writing career. In her youth she was heavily influenced by her evangelical teachers but she later broke with orthodox religion. After she moved to Coventry with her father in 1841, she undertook the task of translating D.F. Strauss’s controversial book The Life of Jesus, Critically Examined (1846) for Charles Bray. After her father’s death she moved to London in 1851 and began to work as an editor on the radical journal the Westminster Review. In 1851 she also met the journalist George Henry Lewes and, despite Lewes’s marriage, they became partners for the rest of his life. In 1854 Lewes and Eliot set up home together, a scandalous arrangement by the social standards of the day.

In 1857 Eliot published Scenes of Clerical Life in Blackwood’s Magazine and in 1859 her novel Adam Bede was published to great acclaim and established her as a bestselling author. Her first attempt to write her most famous novel, Middlemarch (1871–2), ended in failure. Abandoning it, she began a novella entitled Miss Brooke, which eventually became part of the final version of Middlemarch. Lewes died in 1878 and, in 1880, Eliot married John Walter Cross, an American who was twenty years her junior. George Eliot died on 22 December 1880 and is buried in Highgate Cemetery next to Lewes.

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ISBN 13	9781807847333
ISBN 10	1807847330
Title	Middlemarch
Author	George Eliot
Series	Vintage Collector's Classics
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Vintage Publishing
Number of pages	928
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