Middlemarch - Part II

Middlemarch (2 volumes) #2

by George Eliot

George Eliot' was the pseudonym used by Mary Ann Evans. She was one of the most important writers of the Victorian era, renowned for her deep psychological insight and sophisticated character portraits. Her most famous work, Middlemarch, is a turning point in the history of the novel. Making masterful use of a counterpointed plot, Eliot presents the stories of a number of denizens of a small English town on the eve of the Reform Bill of 1832.

Genres: Classics, Fiction, Novels, British Literature, Audiobook, Historical Fiction, 19th Century

500 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1831

About the author

Mary Ann Evans, 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 wrote seven novels: Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), Romola (1862–1863), Felix Holt, the Radical (1866), Middlemarch (1871–1872) and Daniel Deronda (1876). Like Charles Dickens and Thomas Hardy, she emerged from provincial England; most of her works are set there. Her works are known for their realism, psychological insight, sense of place and detailed depiction of the countryside.
Middlemarch was described by the novelist Virginia Woolf as "one of the few English novels written for grown-up people" and by Martin Amis and Julian Barnes as the greatest novel in the English language.

Reviews

[Jassi Ci]

La prima metà del libro introduce i personaggi e le situazioni sociali di middlemarch, nella seconda troviamo un susseguirsi di eventi che mostrano la natura delle persone e le complicazioni che si possono incontrare. La seconda parte sicuramente più interessante, ho molto apprezzato alla fine un capitolo dove l’autore riassume quello che va a succedere a tutti i protagonisti dopo il tempo di narrazione. Da una buona conclusione. Non uno dei miei classici preferiti ma pensavo molto peggio