Middlemarch
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
A towering achievement of Victorian literature, Middlemarch chronicles the interwoven lives of the inhabitants of a fictional English Midlands town in the early 1830s. At its heart are two idealistic protagonists — the passionate, reform-minded Dorothea Brooke, who makes a disastrous marriage to the elderly scholar Casaubon, and the ambitious young doctor Tertius Lydgate, whose aspirations are gradually eroded by social pressure and an ill-fated union. George Eliot constructs a sweeping yet intimate portrait of provincial society, unravelling the tensions between individual desire and social constraint with psychological precision and moral authority. The novel argues powerfully that the heroism of everyday life — the quiet acts of conscience and compassion — shapes the world as profoundly as any grand historical event. Widely regarded as one of the greatest novels in the English language, it rewards its readers with one of literature's most searching and humane visions of human nature.
Author: George Eliot
Format: Paperback
Genre: Classic fiction
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
A towering achievement of Victorian literature, Middlemarch chronicles the interwoven lives of the inhabitants of a fictional English Midlands town in the early 1830s. At its heart are two idealistic protagonists — the passionate, reform-minded Dorothea Brooke, who makes a disastrous marriage to the elderly scholar Casaubon, and the ambitious young doctor Tertius Lydgate, whose aspirations are gradually eroded by social pressure and an ill-fated union. George Eliot constructs a sweeping yet intimate portrait of provincial society, unravelling the tensions between individual desire and social constraint with psychological precision and moral authority. The novel argues powerfully that the heroism of everyday life — the quiet acts of conscience and compassion — shapes the world as profoundly as any grand historical event. Widely regarded as one of the greatest novels in the English language, it rewards its readers with one of literature's most searching and humane visions of human nature.