The most ambitious narrative of nineteenth-century realism, Middlemarch tells the story of an entire town in the years leading up to the Reform Bill of 1832, a time when modern methods were starting to challenge old orthodoxies. Eliot's sophisticated and acute characterization gives rich expression to every nuance of feeling, and vividly brings to life the town's inhabitants - including the young idealist Dorothea Brooke, the dry scholar Casaubon, the young, passionate reformist doctor Lydgate, the flighty young beauty Rosamond and the old, secretive banker Bulstrode - as they move in counterpoint to each other. Art, religion, politics, society, science, human relationships in all their complexity, nothing is left unexamined under the narrator's microscope. One of the greatest novels written in the English language, Middlemarch is a literary landmark in its groundbreaking approach, as well as a priceless document of its age.
| ISBN: | 9781847496041 |
| Publication date: | 26th January 2017 |
| Author: | George Eliot |
| Publisher: | Alma Classics an imprint of Alma Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 752 pages |
| Series: | Evergreens |
| Genres: |
Classics Narrative theme: Love and relationships Narrative theme: Social issues |