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Middlemarch George Eliot

Middlemarch By George Eliot

Middlemarch by George Eliot

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Middlemarch: The 150th Anniversary Edition introduced by Zadie Smith by George Eliot

150th ANNIVERSARY GIFT EDITION WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ZADIE SMITH

Discover one of the most admired, best loved and influential novels in the history of English literature.

'If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life...'

Dorothea is bright, beautiful and rebellious. Lydgate is the ambitious new doctor in town. Both of them long to make a positive difference in the world. But their stories do not proceed as expected and both they, and the other inhabitants of Middlemarch, must struggle to reconcile themselves to their fates and find their places in the world.

Middlemarch contains all of life: the rich and the poor, the conventional and the radical, literature and science, politics and romance, but above all it gives us a vision of what lies within the human heart.

VINTAGE CLASSICS 150th ANNIVERSARY GIFT EDITION
George Eliot's novel was first published in eight instalments, in an innovative new style of serialisation. The earliest part, entitled MIDDLEMARCH, Book 1 - Miss Brooke, was published on 1st December 1871. It was an instant commercial and critical success, and continues to captivate readers 150 years later.

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

Middlemarch Reviews

Perhaps the greatest novel of them all... An enormous canvas and a vast and poignant range of character...a marvellous portrait of nineteenth-century provincial life -- Joanna Trollope * Guardian *
In Middlemarch George Eliot's serious intelligence produced a novel that no one else could have been capable of - a picture of society as an organic, living, breathing synthesis - order and disorder, hope and hopelessness, pride and humility, charity and greed -- Kate Atkinson
Middlemarch, the magnificent book which with all its imperfections, is one of the few English novels written for grown-up people -- Virginia Woolf
Another great romantic story, in which the adorable intellectually pretentious heroine makes a disastrous marriage to a desiccated fossil before finding true love with a penniless somebody -- Jilly Cooper
She had such power, and she knew she had. And such courage -- A. S. Byatt * Guardian *

About George Eliot

George Eliot (Author)
George Eliot was born in Nuneaton in 1819. Baptised Mary Anne Evans, Eliot chose to write using a male pen name. In 1851 she became a journalist, as assistant editor of the Westminster Review. That same year she met George Henry Lewes and they became partners for the rest of his life. Lewes was already married but he and Eliot set up home together, much to the dismay of polite London society. In 1857 Eliot published her first short work of fiction 'Amos Barton' and in 1859 her novel Adam Bede was published to great acclaim, beginning her career as a novelist. Her first attempt to write Middlemarch ended in failure. Abandoning it, she began a short novel entitled 'Miss Brooke'; Middlemarch had started to take shape. The first instalment was published on 1 December 1871. George Eliot died in 1880 and is buried in Highgate Cemetery.

Zadie Smith (Introducer)
Zadie Smith was born in north-west London in 1975. She is the author of the novels White Teeth, The Autograph Man, On Beauty, NW and Swing Time, as well as The Embassy of Cambodia and the essay collection, Changing My Mind. She is also the editor of The Book of Other People, is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and has twice been listed as one of Granta's 20 Best Young British Novelists. She has won the Orange Prize for Fiction, the Whitbread First Novel Award and the Guardian First Book Award among many others, and been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction.

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NGR9781784877569
9781784877569
1784877565
Middlemarch: The 150th Anniversary Edition introduced by Zadie Smith by George Eliot
George Eliot
New
Hardback
Vintage Publishing
20211202
928
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