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by: George Eliot
Binding: Hardcover
EAN: 9780760701706
ISBN: 0760701709
Label: Barnes & Nobles
Manufacturer: Barnes & Nobles
Number Of Pages: 799
Publication Date: 1996
Publisher: Barnes & Nobles
Sales Rank: 735274
Studio: Barnes & Nobles
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It was George Eliot's ambition to create a world and portray a whole community--tradespeople, middle classes, country gentry--in the rising fictional provincial town of Middlemarch, circa 1830. Vast and crowded, rich in narrative irony and suspense, 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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Rating:  - Brilliant eloquence
I read Middlemarch 30 years ago for a highschool assignment. It was over my young head. Making it through the 900 pages was like climbing a mountain and back. It took me about 600 pages to get into the book, and hundreds of pages were devoted to the politics and goings on of the time - something I had little interest in. A more mature reader would probably have found that fascinating.
YET - Of all the books I have read and heard through the years, it is a few sentences in this book ... Read More
Rating:  - An Extraordinary Masterpiece Of 19th Century England & The Industrial Revolution
George Eliot, (nom de plume of Mary Ann Evans), wrote a literary masterpiece with "Middlemarch." This Barnes and Noble hard cover edition is a good one, however I would recommend their newer, paperback publication with an Introduction by author and poet Lynn Sharon Schwartz, or the Penguin Classic version. There is also a brief biography of George Eliot included in the B&N paperback. This superb novel will always rate 5+ Stars for me, but this particular edition is not the best.
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