Must Have Middlemarch

Author: Eliot, George, Ashton, Rosemary

Classic fiction (pre c 1945)

Published on 15 April 2011 by Penguin Books Ltd (Penguin Classics) in the United Kingdom as part of ‘the Penguin Clothbound Classics’ series.

Hardback | 880 pages
156 x 204 x 51 | 1010g

One of the BBC’s ‘100 Novels That Shaped Our World”One of the few English novels written for grown-up people’ Virginia WoolfGeorge 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