Middlemarch (Wordsworth Classics)

George Eliot's masterpiece, groundbreaking in its psychological insight into powerful clashes of obligation and desire.

An analysis of the life of an English provincial town during the time of social unrest prior to the Reform Bill of 1832 told through the lives of Dorothea Brooke and Dr Tertius Lydgate. This title includes a host of other paradigm characters who illuminate the condition of English life in the mid-nineteenth century.

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; the charming but tactless Dr Lydgate, whose marriage to the spendthrift beauty Rosamund and pioneering medical methods threaten to undermine his career; passionate, idealistic and penniless artist Will Ladislaw; and the religious hypocrite Bulstrode, hiding scandalous crimes from his past.

One of the few English novels written for adult people - Virginia Woolf

Capodopera lui George Eliot, revolutionara in perspectiva psihologica a puternicelor ciocniri ale obligatiei si dorintei. O analiza a vietii unui oras de provincie englez in timpul tulburarilor sociale anterioare proiectului de lege de reforma din 1832, relatata prin viata lui Dorothea Brooke si a doctorului Tertius Lydgate.