Middlemarch / George Eliot ; edited with an introduction and notes by Rosemary Ashton.

By: Eliot, George, 1819-1880Contributor(s): Ashton, Rosemary, 1947-Material type: TextTextPublication details: London : Penguin Classics, an imprint of Penguin Books, 2011, c1994Edition: New edDescription: xxiv, 852 pages ; 21 cmISBN: 9780141196893 (hbk.); 0141196890 (hbk.)Subject(s): Marriage -- Fiction | Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- FictionDDC classification: 823.8 Summary: Peopling its landscape are Dorothea Brooke, a young idealist whose search for intellectual fulfillment 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; and, the religious hypocrite Bulstrode, hiding scandalous crimes from his past.
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This ed. originally published: 1994.

Includes bibliographical references.

Peopling its landscape are Dorothea Brooke, a young idealist whose search for intellectual fulfillment 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; and, the religious hypocrite Bulstrode, hiding scandalous crimes from his past.

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