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Middlemarch Paperback – 5 May 2003

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George Eliot's most ambitious novel is a masterly evocation of diverse lives and changing fortunes in a provincial community. Peopling its landscape are Dorothea Brooke, a young idealist whose search for intellectual fulfillment leads her into a disastrous marriage to the pedantic scholar Casaubon; the charming but tactless Dr Lydgate, whose marriage to the spendthrift beauty Rosamund and pioneering medical methods threaten to undermine his career; and the religious hypocrite Bulstrode, hiding scandalous crimes from his past. As their stories interweave, George Eliot creates a richly nuanced and moving drama, hailed by Virginia Woolf as 'one of the few English novels written for adult people'.
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"One of the few English novels written for grown-up people" -- Virginia Woolf

"The most profound, wise and absorbing of English novels...and, above all, truthful and forgiving about human behavior." -- Hermione Lee

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Mary Ann Evans (George Eliot) (1819-80) was a philosopher, journalist and translator before she became a novelist, her first stories being published in 1856. She led an unconventional life, co-editing the liberal journal Westminster Review for three years and living with the married man and philosopher George Henry Lewes.Her novels are among the greatest of the nineteenth century

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Penguin; 1st edition (5 May 2003)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 880 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0141439548
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0141439549
  • Reading age ‏ : ‎ 18 years and up
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 12.93 x 3.81 x 19.76 cm
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    Mary Ann Evans (22 November 1819 - 22 December 1880; alternatively "Mary Anne" or "Marian"), known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She is the author of seven novels, including Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), Felix Holt, the Radical (1866), Middlemarch (1871-72), and Daniel Deronda (1876), most of them set in provincial England and known for their realism and psychological insight.

    She used a male pen name, she said, to ensure her works would be taken seriously. Female authors were published under their own names during Eliot's life, but she wanted to escape the stereotype of women only writing lighthearted romances. She also wished to have her fiction judged separately from her already extensive and widely known work as an editor and critic. An additional factor in her use of a pen name may have been a desire to shield her private life from public scrutiny and to prevent scandals attending her relationship with the married George Henry Lewes, with whom she lived for over 20 years.

    Her 1872 work Middlemarch has been described by Martin Amis and Julian Barnes as the greatest novel in the English language.

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Sam Pluck
5.0 out of 5 stars Long but great characters
Reviewed in Australia on 18 July 2016
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Really worthwhile read getting into the human psyche well and immersing you with the characters. There is a thoroughly enjoyable and somewhat complex plot which I enjoyed.
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Eric A. Foster
4.0 out of 5 stars Lovely prose style of a ill timed romance in Victorian ...
Reviewed in Australia on 7 September 2017
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Lovely prose style of a ill timed romance in Victorian England. I read it more for its elegant writing style than for the storyline which is very much of its time.
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lisa
5.0 out of 5 stars Gossipy neighbours and beautiful writing
Reviewed in Australia on 20 July 2017
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This is 'Days of Our Lives' in 1800's England as two characters make bad marriage choices. It’s also about the good citizens of Middlemarch, where the favourite activity is speculating about the neighbors. But you need to be ready for the wordiness of 1800's novelists to enjoy this wonderful book.

Idealistic Dorothea marries an older man for his great mind, despite the warnings of a pragmatic sister. She soon finds her husband’s greatness does not extend to daily life where he is petty and self-absorbed. Like Dorothea, local doctor Tertius also has a noble heart, but falls in love with a shallow woman. I have always wished nice Tertius and Dorothea could get together but that is not where the story goes.

I like that idealism causes so much trouble. Even today this is unexpected...we expect noble people to be rewarded. There are no easy HEAs in Middlemarch, but it's not totally miserable either. One of the leads lucks out. And I love the gossipy town and all the local characters. Best of all is George Eliot's clever writing...like the observations of an invisible local. On every page there are quotable comments. And her writing style is so lyrical - to me it reads like a poem.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Nice Edition
Reviewed in Australia on 30 March 2014
There are a lot of versions of ‘Middlemarch’ on the market and this Enhanced Ebook edition wins my prize for best value and best content. It’s only 99c and includes a revised, error-free text, stunning illustrations and a link to a free audio book. Need I say more?
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3.0 out of 5 stars Rating for this penguin edition, not the actual story. The story is wonderful
Reviewed in Australia on 6 January 2024
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This edition feels awkward to hold and coupled with the small print, it's just going to be a trek to read the 800+ pages of this epic novel. Other penguin books seem to have a good 'flop' to them to make them easy to hold and read, but this just felt stiff.

I didn't return the book but ended up buying the Penguin Deluxe version afterward and that edition is just perfect.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Characters drew me in
Reviewed in Australia on 2 January 2018
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I enjoyed finding out about the characters in Middlemarch, their flaws and concerns. I found myself caring about what happened to them. It was also a fascinating journey of time and place. It was at times a slow journey around the daily rituals of a community. A very detailed account of people and their differences.
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Jennifer Taylor
1.0 out of 5 stars Waste of money
Reviewed in Australia on 6 March 2021
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This is an unreadable copy. It reads like a poor translation. I thought I was buying a classic at a cheap price but it is so poorly written that it is incomprehensible - a Victorian novel that uses the word 'guy' instead of 'man' ? Not worth one star but I was unable to submit less.
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2.0 out of 5 stars to many boring people, not enough story
Reviewed in Australia on 5 May 2017
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To long, to many words, to many boring people,not enough story, to many pages with nothing interesting on them!
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UmmNouwayra
3.0 out of 5 stars Not about the book
Reviewed in the Netherlands on 13 April 2024
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The sleeve (or whatever its called) was a bit thorn here and there, and I didnt like the red cover. Returned it and ordered the paperback.
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Tobbe
5.0 out of 5 stars Fin!
Reviewed in Sweden on 25 December 2023
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Uppskattad julklapp.
Väldigt fin.
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Larissa
5.0 out of 5 stars Chegou em perfeito estado
Reviewed in Brazil on 23 September 2020
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A edição é linda! Capa maravilhosa, chegou em perfeito estado e bem embalado. Folhas amareladas e me parecem ser daquelas q não oxidam. Tamanho de fonte confortável, o que é bem importante pq o livro é longo. Quanto ao conteúdo, não tenho como fazer resenha pois ainda não terminei de ler.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Excelente edición
Reviewed in Spain on 29 August 2021
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"The Penquin English Library" me encantan más que las tradicionales de Penguin. El tamaño de la letra y el matiz de las hojas. Hay algo que sí me ha sorprendido y es el prefacio. Tal y como está redactado he tenido la sensación de que Santa Teresa representa el inicio de la lucha feminista contra los "moros" y me parece muy reducida y con falta de explicación este argumento. Santa Teresa pertenecía a una familia de judíos conversos que tenían excelente consideración en la corte. Los judíos y musulmanes no conversos ya habían sido expulsados. En mi opinión la lucha de Santa Teresa era con el Vaticano y con aquell@s a su alrededor que dudaban de los judíos conversos respecto del cristianismo católico. Por otra parte, sólo una mujer con una educación de libertad de pensamiento era posible en una familia de antepasados judíos pues los cristianos eran aún más rígidos que los musulmanes de la época anterior que propiciaron la convivencia de las tres religiones. Los "moros" eran mucho menos "malos" que la Inquisición que nunca ha sido apartada por el Vaticano. En fin que Santa Teresa no me parece una feminista que lucha para que las mujeres conduzcan en los países árabes sino un paradigma de la lucha contra el "machismo" de la iglesia católica. Como ella no ha habido ninguna más.
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Leonne2021
5.0 out of 5 stars Einer der besten Romane die ich je las
Reviewed in Germany on 11 February 2021
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Obwohl ich skeptisch war-- da es ja um eine URALTE Zeit geht... war ich überrascht.
Dieser Roman bebt vor Spannung, mit psychologisch total tief geschnitzten Figuren,
vor allem die neue deutsche Übersetzung aus 2019 (von Übersetzerin!) ist wahnsinnig gut,
dafür gabs zu Recht einen Preis, sie hat es geschafft den WEIBLICHEN Blick, der den ganzen Roman trägt,
die Liebes- und andere Beziehungen in die Übersetzung perfekt mit einzufädeln!
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