{"product_id":"middlemarch-penguin-classics-deluxe-edition-by-george-eliot","title":"Middlemarch (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by George Eliot","description":"\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"text\"\u003e\n\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGeorge Eliot's beloved masterpiece in a Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition with a foreword by Rebecca Mead, author of the bestselling memoir\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMy Life in Middlemarch\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\nA triumph of realist fiction, George Eliot's\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMiddlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eexplores a fictional nineteenth-century Midlands town in the midst of sweeping change. The proposed Reform Bill, the new railroads, and scientific advances are threatening upheaval on every front. Against this backdrop, the quiet drama of ordinary lives is played out by the novel's complexly portrayed characters--until the arrival of two outsiders further disrupts the town's equilibrium. Every bit as powerful and perceptive in our time as it was in the Victorian era,\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMiddlemarch\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003edisplays George Eliot's clear-eyed yet humane understanding of characters caught up in the mysterious unfolding of self-knowledge.\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\nIn this elegant Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition, Rebecca Mead introduces the novel that shaped her life and reflects on its joys and its timeless relevance.\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\nFor more than sixty-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,500 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eMiddlemarch\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, the magnificent book which with all its imperfections is one of the few English novels written for grown-up people.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e--Virginia Woolf\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"The most profound, wise and absorbing of English novels . . . and, above all, truthful and forgiving about human behaviour.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e--Hermione Lee\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNo Victorian novel approaches \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eMiddlemarch\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e in its width of reference, its intellectual power, or the imperturbable spaciousness of its narrative...I doubt if any Victorian novelist has as much to teach the modern novelists as George Eliot...No writer has ever represented the ambiguities of moral choice so fully.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e--V. S. Pritchett\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMiddlemarch is probably the greatest English novel.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e--Julian Barnes\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIt is possible to argue that Middlemarch is the greatest English novel.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e--A. S. Byatt\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCertainly the greatest [English] novel.\u003cbr\u003e--Martin Amis\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eGeorge Eliot\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (1819-1880), whose real name was Mary Ann Evans Cross, left school at the age of sixteen and embarked on a program of independent study to further her intellectual growth before becoming one of the leading novelists of the Victorian era. Her seven novels also include \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Mill on the Floss\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eAdam Bede\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eSilas Marner\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRebecca Mead\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a staff writer at the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew Yorker and the author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eMy Life in Middlemarch\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. 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