Middlemarch (Collector's Edition)

by George Eliot

Overview

Middlemarch is a complex tale of idealism, disillusion, profligacy, loyalty and frustrated love. This penetrating analysis of the life of an English provincial town during the time of social unrest prior to the Reform Bill of 1832 is told through the lives of Dorothea Brooke and Dr Tertius Lydgate and includes a host of other paradigm characters who illuminate the condition of English life in the mid-nineteenth century. Henry James described Middlemarch as a 'treasure-house of detail' while Virginia Woolf famously endorsed George Eliot's masterpiece as 'one of the few English novels written for grown-up people'

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781840228724
Publisher:	Wordsworth Editions, Limited
Publication date:	01/01/2025
Series:	Wordsworth Collector's Editions
Pages:	936
Product dimensions:	5.08(w) x 7.01(h) x 0.00(d)

Editorial Reviews

Alison Larkin's bright narration takes listeners to the charming fictional town of Middlemarch, England. Individual goals, loves, and desires intertwine as early-nineteenth-century characters find themselves navigating restrictive social norms amid political and social change. Larkin's narration captures the complex residents as they come to terms with the new world they find themselves in. Her performance depicts the rich interactions and interconnected relationships of the novel's many characters as she gives them all believable voices. Larkin's intelligent narration makes delving into this weighty classic a joy. V.B. © AudioFile 2025, Portland, Maine

MARCH 2025 - AudioFile