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About this product
Product Identifiers
PublisherWordsworth Editions, The Limited
ISBN-101853262374
ISBN-139781853262371
eBay Product ID (ePID)102900387
Product Key Features
Book TitleMiddlemarch
Number of Pages736 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1993
TopicClassics, Literary
GenreFiction
AuthorDoreen Roberts, George Eliot
Book SeriesWordsworth Collection
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height1.5 in
Item Weight15.9 Oz
Item Length7.8 in
Item Width5.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
Dewey Edition23
Number of Volumes1 vol.
Dewey Decimal823.8
SynopsisIntroduction and Notes by Doreen Roberts, Rutherford College, University of Kent at Canterbury. Middlemarch is a complex tale of idealism, disillusion, profligacy, loyalty and frustrated love. This penetrating analysis of the life of an English provincial town during the time of social unrest prior to the Reform Bill of 1832 is told through the lives of Dorothea Brooke and Dr Tertius Lydgate and includes a host of other paradigm characters who illuminate the condition of English life in the mid-nineteenth century. Henry James described Middlemarch as a 'treasurehouse of detail' while Virginia Woolf famously endorsed George Eliot's masterpiece as 'one of the few English novels written for grown-up people., An analysis of the life of an English provincial town during the time of social unrest prior to the Reform Bill of 1832 told through the lives of Dorothea Brooke and Dr Tertius Lydgate. This title includes a host of other paradigm characters who illuminate the condition of English life in the mid-nineteenth century.