Middlemarch: George Eliot - Brossura

Eliot, George

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ISBN 10: 0141439548 ISBN 13: 9780141439549

Casa editrice: Penguin Classics, 2003

Riassunto

One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World'

'One of the few English novels written for grown-up people' Virginia Woolf

George Eliot's nuanced and moving novel is a masterly evocation of connected lives, changing fortunes and human frailties in a provincial community. Peopling its landscape are Dorothea Brooke, a young idealist whose search for intellectual fulfilment leads her into a disastrous marriage to the pedantic scholar Casaubon; Dr Lydgate, whose pioneering medical methods, combined with an imprudent marriage to the spendthrift beauty Rosamond, threaten to undermine his career; and the religious hypocrite Bulstrode, hiding scandalous crimes from his past.

Edited with an Introduction and notes by ROSEMARY ASHTON

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Recensione:

"One of the few English novels written for grown-up people" -- Virginia Woolf

"The most profound, wise and absorbing of English novels...and, above all, truthful and forgiving about human behavior." -- Hermione Lee

L'autore:

Mary Ann Evans (George Eliot) (1819-80) was a philosopher, journalist and translator before she became a novelist, her first stories being published in 1856. She led an unconventional life, co-editing the liberal journal Westminster Review for three years and living with the married man and philosopher George Henry Lewes. Her novels are among the greatest of the nineteenth century

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Penguin Classics
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0141439548
• ISBN 13: 9780141439549
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 880
• Redattore: Ashton Rosemary