false 1118137 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1237068076m/1118137.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1237068076s/1118137.jpg from the Clarendon Middlemarch, the first critical edition of the novel.]]> 19089 129 1461747 book 1872 Middlemarch total:7507|5:2981|4:2383|3:1496|2:439|1:208| 7507 30011 13311 1052 173 3.74 20084 2277 5711409 345211 19089 0451529170 9780451529176 765 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255790409m/19089.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255790409s/19089.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19089.Middlemarch 3.97 5907 1872 5 40 false Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1997 Wed Sep 05 10:20:11 -0700 2007 Thu Dec 17 08:59:45 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3206608 132196 19089 0451529170 9780451529176 765 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255790409m/19089.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255790409s/19089.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19089.Middlemarch 4.00 7507 1872 5 23 false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Jul 18 06:01:33 -0700 2007 Thu Dec 17 01:00:38 -0800 2009
Seriously, this shit's bananas. B-A-N-A-N-A-S. 750 pages in, and you're still being surprised. It's 800 pages long and EVERY SINGLE PAGE ADVANCES THE PLOT. You cannot believe it until you read it.

This is a writer's book. By which I mean, and I say...more...]]> 20292086 629344 271276 0141439548 9780141439549 74 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173306085m/271276.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173306085s/271276.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/271276.Middlemarch 4.18 509 Middlemarch is richer still in character and in its sense of how individual destinies are shaped by and shape the community.

Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Rosemary Ashton]]> 1872 4 23 false Sat Nov 21 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Apr 16 08:26:38 -0700 2008 Sat Dec 19 05:49:10 -0800 2009 1 Oh, my constant companion, the time has come for us to part. How shall I bear it? What will this estrangement do to me? George, please, tell me how can I go on?

I am feeling a little melodramatic. It may be that George Eliot has been my constant companion for two months and now that we ar...more...]]> 26939189 381149 595001 0192834029 9780192834027 35 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/595001.Middlemarch 4.04 185 1872 5 16 false Mon Apr 01 00:00:00 -0800 1996 Fri Jul 11 05:37:38 -0700 2008 Fri Jul 11 05:39:44 -0700 2008 the quintessential Victorian novel, Middlemarch is a superb study of life among the upper and upper middle classes of a fictional rural community in 1830s England. It takes 900 pages to draw its conclusions, but they're 900 pages of some of the richest realist writing nineteenth-c...more...]]> 7564886 529836 19089 0451529170 9780451529176 765 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255790409m/19089.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255790409s/19089.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19089.Middlemarch 4.00 7507 1872 5 11 false Wed Oct 10 21:13:14 -0700 2007 Wed Oct 10 21:13:14 -0700 2007 more...]]> 59860687 1889855 19090 1593080239 9781593080235 29 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167197977m/19090.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167197977s/19090.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19090.Middlemarch_Barnes_Noble_Classics_ 3.98 128 George Eliot (the pen name of Mary Ann Evans) created in Middlemarch a vast panorama of life in a provincial Midlands town. At the story’s center stands the intellectual and idealistic Dorothea Brooke—a character who in many ways resembles Eliot herself. But the very qualities that set Dorothea apart from the materialistic, mean-spirited society around her also lead her into a disastrous marriage with a man she mistakes for her soul mate. In a parallel story, young doctor Tertius Lydgate, who is equally idealistic, falls in love with the pretty but vain and superficial Rosamund Vincy, whom he marries to his ruin.

Eliot surrounds her main figures with a gallery of characters drawn from every social class, from laborers and shopkeepers to the rising middle class to members of the wealthy, landed gentry. Together they form an extraordinarily rich and precisely detailed portrait of English provincial life in the 1830s. But Dorothea’s and Lydgate’s struggles to retain their moral integrity in the midst of temptation and tragedy remind us that their world is very much like our own. Strikingly modern in its painful ironies and psychological insight, Middlemarch was pivotal in the shaping of twentieth-century literary realism.

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Delusions, self-induced or otherwise, form the central theme that runs through Middlemarch. Dorothea Brooke, thirsting for knowledge and a meaningful occupation, deludes herself that ...more...]]> 1492169 102425 271276 0141439548 9780141439549 74 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173306085m/271276.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173306085s/271276.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/271276.Middlemarch 4.00 7507 Middlemarch is richer still in character and in its sense of how individual destinies are shaped by and shape the community.

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