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PENGUIN CLASSICS MIDDLEMARCH - GEORGE ELIOT K...

George Eliot's Victorian masterpiece: a magnificent portrait of a provincial town and its
inhabitants  George Eliot's novel  Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life  explores a
fictional nineteenth-century Midlands town in the midst of modern changes. The proposed Reform
Bill promises political change  the building of railroads alters both the physical and cultural
landscape  new scientific approaches to medicine incite public division  and scandal lurks
behind respectability. The quiet drama of ordinary lives and flawed choices are played out in
the complexly portrayed central characters of the novel-the idealistic Dorothea Brooke  the
ambitious Dr. Lydgate  the spendthrift Fred Vincy  and the steadfast Mary Garth. The appearance
of two outsiders further disrupts the town's equilibrium-Will Ladislaw  the spirited nephew of
Dorothea's husband  the Rev. Edward Casaubon  and the sinister John Raffles  who threatens to
expose the hidden past of one of the town's elite. Middlemarch displays George Eliot's
clear-eyed yet humane understanding of characters caught up in the mysterious unfolding of
self-knowledge. This Penguin Classics edition uses the second edition of 1874 and features an
introduction and notes by Eliot-biographer Rosemary Ashton. In her introduction  Ashton
discusses themes of social change in Middlemarch  and examines the novel as an imaginative
embodiment of Eliot's humanist beliefs.  For more than sixty-five years  Penguin has been the
leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1 500
titles  Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and
across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced
by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors  as well as
up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

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