Middlemarch,Used

Product Description One of the most accomplished and prominent novels of the Victorian era, Middlemarch is an unsurpassed portrait of nineteenthcentury English provincial life. Dorothea Brooke is a young woman of fervent ideals who yearns to effect social change yet faces resistance from the society she inhabits. In this epic in a small landscape, Eliot's large cast of precisely delineated characters and the rich tapestry of their stories result in a wise, compassionate, and astute vision of human nature. As Virginia Woolf declared, George Eliot 'was one of the first English novelists to discover that men and women think as well as feel, and the discovery was of great artistic moment.'From the Trade Paperback edition. Review 'No Victorian novel approaches Middlemarch in its width of reference, its intellectual power, or the imperturbable spaciousness of its narrative.'V. S. PritchettFrom the Trade Paperback edition. From the Inside Flap One of the most accomplished and prominent novels of the Victorian era, Middlemarch is an unsurpassed portrait of nineteenthcentury English provincial life. Dorothea Brooke is a young woman of fervent ideals who yearns to effect social change yet faces resistance from the society she inhabits. In this epic in a small landscape, Eliot's large cast of precisely delineated characters and the rich tapestry of their stories result in a wise, compassionate, and astute vision of human nature. As Virginia Woolf declared, George Eliot 'was one of the first English novelists to discover that men and women think as well as feel, and the discovery was of great artistic moment.'From the Trade Paperback edition. About the Author Mary Ann Evans was born on November 22, 1819, at Chilvers Coton, Warwickshire, England, the last child of an estate agent. During her girlhood, she went through a phase of evangelical piety, but her strong interest in philosophy and her friendship with religious freethinkers led to a break with orthodox religion. When one of these friends married in 1843, Mary Ann took over from his wife the task of translating D.F. Strausss The Life of Jesus Critically Examined (1846), a work that had deep effect on English rationalism. After her fathers death she settled in London and from 1851 to 1854 she served as a writer and editor of the Westminster Review, the organ of the Radical party. In London she met she met George Henry Lewes, a journalist and advanced thinker. Lewes was separated from his wife, who had had two sons by another man, but had been unable to obtain a divorce. In a step daring for Victorian times, Mary Ann Evans began living openly with Lewes in 1854, in a union they both considered as sacred as a legal marriage and one that lasted until his death in 1878.With Lewess encouragement, Mary Ann Evans wrote her first fictional work, The Sad Fortunes of the Reverend Amos Barton, for Blackwoods Magazine in 1857; it was followed by two more stories published under the pseudonym George ElliotGeorge because it was Lewess name and Eliot because, she said, it was good mouthfilling, easily pronounced word. At the age of thirtynine she used her memories of Warwickshire to write her first long novel, Adam Bede (1859), a book that established her as the foremost woman novelist in her day. Then came The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), and Romola (1863). Her masterpiece and one of the greatest English novels, Middlemarch, was published in 187172. Her last work was Daniel Deronda (1876). After Lewess death George Eliot married John Walter Cross. He was forty; she was sixtyone. Before her death on December 22, 1880, she had been recognized by her contemporaries as the greatest living writer of English fiction.From the Paperback edition. Excerpt. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. WHO that cares much to know the history of man, and how the mysterious mixture behaves under the varying experiments of Tim