Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by George Eliot (English) Paperba

Description: Middlemarch by George Eliot Features Dorothea Brooke; Dr Lydgate; spendthrift Fred Vincy; and steadfast Mary Garth. This book explores a fictional nineteenth-century Midlands town in the midst of modern changes. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description George Eliots beloved masterpiece in a Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition with a foreword by Rebecca Mead, author of the bestselling memoir My Life in MiddlemarchA triumph of realist fiction, George Eliots Middlemarch- A Study of Provincial Life explores a fictional nineteenth-century Midlands town in the midst of sweeping change. The proposed Reform Bill, the new railroads, and scientific advances are threatening upheaval on every front. Against this backdrop, the quiet drama of ordinary lives is played out by the novels complexly portrayed characters-until the arrival of two outsiders further disrupts the towns equilibrium. Every bit as powerful and perceptive in our time as it was in the Victorian era, Middlemarchdisplays George Eliots clear-eyed yet humane understanding of characters caught up in the mysterious unfolding of self-knowledge.In this elegant Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition, Rebecca Mead introduces the novel that shaped her life and reflects on its joys and its timeless relevance.For more than sixty-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,500titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust theseries to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-datetranslations by award-winning translators. Author Biography George Eliot (1819-1880), whose real name was Mary Ann Evans Cross, left school at the age of sixteen and embarked on a program of independent study to further her intellectual growth before becoming one of the leading novelists of the Victorian era. Her seven novels also include The Mill on the Floss, Adam Bede, and Silas Marner.Rebecca Mead is a staff writer at the New Yorker and the author of My Life in Middlemarch. She lives in New York. Review "Middlemarch, the magnificent book which with all its imperfections is 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 behaviour."—Hermione Lee"No Victorian novel approaches Middlemarch in its width of reference, its intellectual power, or the imperturbable spaciousness of its narrative...I doubt if any Victorian novelist has as much to teach the modern novelists as George Eliot...No writer has ever represented the ambiguities of moral choice so fully".—V. S. Pritchett"Middlemarch is probably the greatest English novel."—Julian Barnes"It is possible to argue that Middlemarch is the greatest English novel."—A. S. Byatt "Certainly the greatest [English] novel."—Martin Amis Review Quote " Middlemarch , the magnificent book which with all its imperfections is 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 behaviour." -Hermione Lee "No Victorian novel approaches Excerpt from Book WHO that cares much to know the history of man, and how the mysterious mixture behaves under the varying experiments of Time, has not dwelt, at least briefly, on the life of Saint Theresa, has not smiled with some gentleness at the thought of the little girl walking forth one morning hand - in - hand with her still smaller brother, to go and seek martyrdom in the country of the Moors? Out they toddled from rugged Avila, wide - eyed and helpless - looking as two fawns, but with human hearts, already beating to a national idea; until domestic reality met them in the shape of uncles, and turned them back from their great resolve. That child - pilgrimage was a fit beginning. Theresas passionate, ideal nature demanded an epic life: what were many - volumed romances of chivalry and the social conquests of a brilliant girl to her. Her flame quickly burned up that light fuel; and, fed from within, soared after some illimitable satisfaction, some object which would never justify weariness, which would reconcile self - despair with the rapturous consciousness of life beyond self. She found her epos in the reform of a religious order. That Spanish woman who lived three hundred years ago was certainly not the last of her kind. Many Theresas have been born who found for themselves no epic life wherein there was a constant unfolding of far - resonant action; perhaps only a life of mistakes, the offspring of a certain spiritual grandeur ill - matched with the meanness of opportunity; perhaps a tragic failure which found no sacred poet and sank unwept into oblivion. With dim lights and tangled circumstance they tried to shape their thought and deed in noble agreement; but after all, to common eyes their struggles seemed mere inconsistency and formlessness; for these later - born Theresas were helped by no coherent social faith and order which could perform the function of knowledge for the ardently willing soul. Their ardour alternated between a vague ideal and the common yearning of womanhood; so that the one was disapproved as extravagance, and the other condemned as a lapse. Some have felt that these blundering lives are due to the inconvenient indefiniteness with which the Supreme Power has fashioned the natures of women: if there were one level of feminine incompetence as strict as the ability to count three and no more, the social lot of women might be treated with scientific certitude. Meanwhile the indefiniteness remains, and the limits of variation are really much wider than any one would imagine from the sameness of womens coiffure and the favourite love - stories in prose and verse. Here and there a cygnet is reared uneasily among the ducklings in the brown pond, and never finds the living stream in fellowship with its own oary-footed kind. Here and there is born a Saint Theresa, foundress of nothing, whose loving heart -beats and sobs after an unattained goodness tremble off and are dispersed among hindrances, instead of centering in some long recognisable deed. Details ISBN0143107720 Author George Eliot Short Title MIDDLEMARCH Pages 800 Language English ISBN-10 0143107720 ISBN-13 9780143107729 Media Book Format Paperback Residence Chilvers Coton, ENK Birth 1819 Death 1880 Series Penguin Classics Deluxe Editions Year 2015 Publication Date 2015-10-29 Imprint Penguin Classics Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Subtitle (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) UK Release Date 2015-10-29 Publisher Penguin Books Ltd DEWEY 823.8 Audience General NZ Release Date 2015-10-28 AU Release Date 2015-10-28 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:97781318;

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