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Middlemarch (English Library) Eliot, George and Harvey,
PENGUIN CLASSICS GEORGE ELIOT
MIDDLEMARCH
EDITED BY W.J. HARVEY
George Eliot's poised vision, her compassion and her cool
flow of ironic comment are at their most compelling in this
masterpiece.
With sure and subtle touch, George Eliot paints a luminous
and spacious landscape of life in a provincial town,
interweaving her themes with a proliferation of characters:
Dorothea, an innocent idealist hemmed in by a social life
that seemed nothing more than a labyrinth of petty causes;
Dr Lydgate, the young doctor, defeated by self and
circumstance; Rosamond, who possesses the naive but
deadly egoism of the spoilt child; the chill and impotent
Casaubon who lives 'too much with the dead'; and
Bulstrode, who chokes his conscience with doctrinal
justiication. Indeed, in her penetrating analysis of human
nature George Eliot achieved what Dr Leavis called
'a Tolstoyan depth and reality'.
The cover shows a detail from The Pathway to the Village Church by Thomas
Creswick by courtesy of the Trustees of the Tate Gallery, London
(photo: Rodney Todd-White)