“ Middlemarch shows us the contours and indeed the very language of the characters’ inner lives. Jennifer Egan, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Visit from the Goon Squad and Manhattan Beach “Eliot found fulfillment in a relationship that society shunned-no wonder her study of marriage captures a climate of change.” “ Middlemarch, the magnificent book which with all its imperfections, is one of the few English novels written for grown-up people.” “A novel without weaknesses, it renews itself for every generation.” John Mullan, author of What Matters in Jane Austen? “ Middlemarch is so careful to correct any habit to side with one person rather than another that the narrator even corrects herself.” Byatt, author of Possession and The Children’s Book “Eliot had such power, and she knew she had. Dorothea’s successes and failures not only in love but as an ardent social reformer will resonate with all of us who look at the world today and ask, as Dorothea did in her time, “What could she do, what ought she to do?” With bold illustrations by artist Keren Katz, the Restless Classics edition of Middlemarch is a thoroughly modern edition of one of the most important novels ever written. In her insightful introduction, Rebecca Mead, New Yorker writer and author of My Year in Middlemarch, explores Eliot’s “meliorism”-her belief that individuals can improve society in small, everyday ways.

Lydgate, and the spirited, striving Dorothea Brooke.Ī novel of marriage, Eliot’s “study of Provincial Life” is also a strikingly fresh commentary on scientific and technological change, cultural and class divides, and the upheavals of a rural community experiencing global transformation. Centuries removed from the world of the landed gentry in 1830s England, the characters of Middlemarch remain as exquisitely drawn and deeply alive as any in literature: the pedantic, obsessive Reverend Casaubon, the idealistic Dr. Choose from Same Day Delivery, Drive Up or Order Pickup. Long regarded as one of the greatest of the great English-language novels, Middlemarch by George Eliot has endured as the archetypal Victorian novel and an eternally resonant exploration of society and the individual. Read reviews and buy Quarry for Middlemarch - by George Eliot (Hardcover) at Target.