Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series designed by the award-winning
Coralie Bickford-Smith these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality
colourful tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. 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'.
