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Middlemarch (Oxford World's Classics) (Paperback)

by George Eliot (Author), Felicia Bonaparte (Contributor), David Carroll (Editor) "MISS BROOKE had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress ..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 904 pages
  • Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks; New edition edition (5 Mar 1998)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0192834029
  • ISBN-13: 978-0192834027
  • Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.6 x 3.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 202,080 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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    #25 in  Books > Fiction > The Classics > Eliot, George
    #90 in  Books > Poetry, Drama & Criticism > History & Criticism > Novels & Novelists > 19th Century
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"Excellent text--one of the best editions of any 19th century novel available in paper."--Alexander S. Gourlay, University of Nebraska
"Like the other World's Classics, this is a good text in a well-designed format, with adequate but unobtrusive editorial aids and introductions, biographical information, notes--at a fair price."--Robert D. Beckett, Southwest Missouri State University


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Writing at the very moment when the foundations of Western thought were being challenged and undermined, George Eliot fashions in Middlemarch (1871-2) the quintessential Victorian novel, a concept of life and society free from the dogma of the past yet able to confront the scepticism that was taking over the age. In a panoramic sweep of English life during thr years leading up to the First Reform Bill of 1832, Eliot explores nearly every subject of concern to modern life: art, religion, science, politics, self, society, human relationships. Among her characters are some of the most remarkable portraits in English literature: Dorothea Brooke, the heroine, idealistic but näive; Rosamond Vincy, beautiful and egoistic: Edward Casaubon, the dry-as-dust scholar: Tertius Lydgate, the brilliant but morally-flawed physician: the passionate artist Will Ladislaw: and Fred Vincey and Mary Garth, childhood sweethearts whose charming courtship is one of the many humorous elements in the novel's rich comic vein. Felicia Bonaparte has provided a new Introduction for this updated edition, the text of which is taken from David Carroll's Clarendon Middlemarch (1986), the first critical edition.

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12 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars My favourite novel ever, 17 Oct 2000
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I read it many years ago and keep going back to my dog-eared Penguin Paperback to marvel at certain passages. It is huge and all-encompassing, and deals just as well with work as it does with love - a rare compliment indeed. Forget Dickens and Hardy and all those other writers of soap operas for children - this is truly "one of the few great novels written for grown-ups" (I quote Virginia Wolff from the back cover). (And for fans of Jane Austen, it's also a great soppy romantic page-turner with one of the most desirable female leads in literature)
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5.0 out of 5 stars Middlemarch, 28 Feb 2009
By Teresa Quayle "terri" (Manchester UK) - See all my reviews
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George Eliot gets inside the mindset of inhabitants of a small town and extrapolates their most innemost feelings towards each other. Fascinating read.
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2.0 out of 5 stars not a favourite., 20 Aug 2008
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I found this book very long and dull. I enjoyed parts of the story but Often the storytelling is replaced by pages and pages of politics.
It has its devotees though and is not entirely without merit so I guess all must judge for themselves. I really wanted to enjoy it but it just didn't press the right buttons for me.

I couldn't reccomend it.
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