George Eliot's masterful classic in a gorgeous clothbound edition 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'.
