Overview
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.
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
- | Author: George Eliot
- | Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
- | Publication Date: Jun 02, 2011
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- | Binding: Hardback
- | ISBN-13: 9780141196893
- | ISBN-10: 0141196890
