Middlemarch: In Two Volumes; Volume Two
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Widely regarded as the greatest novel in the English language, Middlemarch immerses the reader in the intricate social web of a provincial English Midlands town during the years of political and social reform in the 1830s, weaving together the intertwined destinies of its unforgettable characters — most notably the idealistic Dorothea Brooke, whose passionate yearning for a life of moral purpose collides with the suffocating constraints of Victorian society, and the ambitious Dr. Tertius Lydgate, whose medical idealism is slowly ground down by debt, a misguided marriage, and the petty politics of the community he sought to serve. George Eliot, the pen name of Mary Ann Evans, writes with a psychological acuity and moral intelligence that was decades ahead of its time, presenting a sweeping panorama of human ambition, romantic illusion, and quiet sacrifice. This edition, published under the celebrated Everyman's Library imprint by J. M. Dent & Sons and E. P. Dutton, with an introduction by Gerald Bullett, presents the novel in two volumes — a format befitting a work of such extraordinary scope and depth. Middlemarch does not merely chronicle life in a small English town; it anatomises the very architecture of human longing, leaving the reader to ask whether any life, however ordinary, might yet contain the seeds of an unhistoric act that quietly changes the world.
Author: George Eliot
Format: Hardback
Genre: Classic fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Widely regarded as the greatest novel in the English language, Middlemarch immerses the reader in the intricate social web of a provincial English Midlands town during the years of political and social reform in the 1830s, weaving together the intertwined destinies of its unforgettable characters — most notably the idealistic Dorothea Brooke, whose passionate yearning for a life of moral purpose collides with the suffocating constraints of Victorian society, and the ambitious Dr. Tertius Lydgate, whose medical idealism is slowly ground down by debt, a misguided marriage, and the petty politics of the community he sought to serve. George Eliot, the pen name of Mary Ann Evans, writes with a psychological acuity and moral intelligence that was decades ahead of its time, presenting a sweeping panorama of human ambition, romantic illusion, and quiet sacrifice. This edition, published under the celebrated Everyman's Library imprint by J. M. Dent & Sons and E. P. Dutton, with an introduction by Gerald Bullett, presents the novel in two volumes — a format befitting a work of such extraordinary scope and depth. Middlemarch does not merely chronicle life in a small English town; it anatomises the very architecture of human longing, leaving the reader to ask whether any life, however ordinary, might yet contain the seeds of an unhistoric act that quietly changes the world.