Middlemarch by George Eliot (Penguin Classics Deluxe)
George Eliot's beloved masterpiece in a Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition, with a foreword by Rebecca Mead, author of the bestselling memoir My Life in Middlemarch.
A triumph of realist fiction, George Eliot's Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life explores a fictional nineteenth-century Midlands town in the midst of sweeping change. The proposed Reform Bill, the new railroads and scientific advances are threatening upheaval on every front. Against this backdrop, the quiet drama of ordinary lives is played out by the novel's complexly portrayed characters, until the arrival of two outsiders further disrupts the town's equilibrium. Every bit as powerful and perceptive in our time as it was in the Victorian era, Middlemarch displays George Eliot's clear-eyed yet humane understanding of characters caught up in the mysterious unfolding of self-knowledge.
In this elegant Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition, Rebecca Mead introduces the novel that shaped her own life and reflects on its enduring joys and timeless relevance.
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This book is featured on The Book Club with Michael Knowles, PragerU's show dedicated to the great books of Western civilization. In this episode, Michael Knowles is joined by Heather Mac Donald to discuss George Eliot's sweeping tale of marriage, idealism, loyalty and profligacy, and to ask whether a life of duty and self-sacrifice is noble or ridiculous.
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Own this Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition of Middlemarch and discover why George Eliot's portrait of an English town still resonates with readers two centuries later.
