Middlemarch Av George Eliot

<p><b>One of the BBC''s ''100 Novels That Shaped Our World''</b><br><br><b>''One of the few English novels written for grown-up people'' Virginia Woolf</b><br><br>George Eliot''s nuanced and moving novel is a masterly evocation of connected lives, changing fortunes and human frailties in a provincial community. Peopling its landscape are Dorothea Brooke, a young idealist whose search for intellectual fulfilment leads her into a disastrous marriage to the pedantic scholar Casaubon; Dr Lydgate, whose pioneering medical methods, combined with an imprudent marriage to the spendthrift beauty Rosamond, threaten to undermine his career; and the religious hypocrite Bulstrode, hiding scandalous crimes from his past.<br><br>Edited with an Introduction and notes by ROSEMARY ASHTON</p>