George Eliot: Middlemarch
Middlemarch
Buch
- Ed. with an Introduction and Notes by Rosemary Ashton
- Penguin Books Ltd (UK), 01/2003
- Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert, ,
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9780141439549
- Bestellnummer: 2014096
- Umfang: 852 Seiten
- Auflage: Rev. repr.
- Copyright-Jahr: 2003
- Gewicht: 594 g
- Maße: 195 x 126 mm
- Stärke: 43 mm
- Erscheinungstermin: 30.1.2003
Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
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Beschreibung
It was George Eliot's ambition to create a world and portray a whole community - tradespeople, middle classes, country gentry - in the rising fictional provincial town of Middlemarch, circa 1830. Vast and crowded, rich in narrative irony andsuspense, Middlemarch is richer still in character and in its sense of how individual destinies are shaped by and shape the community.
Rezension
"One of the few English novels written for grown-up people" -- Virginia Woolf"The most profound, wise and absorbing of English novels...and, above all, truthful and forgiving about human behavior." -- Hermione Lee
Klappentext
George Eliot's Victorian masterpiece: a magnificent portrait of a provincial town and its inhabitantsGeorge Eliot's novel, Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life, explores a fictional nineteenth-century Midlands town in the midst of modern changes. The proposed Reform Bill promises political change; the building of railroads alters both the physical and cultural landscape; new scientific approaches to medicine incite public division; and scandal lurks behind respectability. The quiet drama of ordinary lives and flawed choices are played out in the complexly portrayed central characters of the novel-the idealistic Dorothea Brooke; the ambitious Dr. Lydgate; the spendthrift Fred Vincy; and the steadfast Mary Garth. The appearance of two outsiders further disrupts the town's equilibrium-Will Ladislaw, the spirited nephew of Dorothea's husband, the Rev. Edward Casaubon, and the sinister John Raffles, who threatens to expose the hidden past of one of the town's elite. Middlemarch displays George Eliot's clear-eyed yet humane understanding of characters caught up in the mysterious unfolding of self-knowledge. This Penguin Classics edition uses the second edition of 1874 and features an introduction and notes by Eliot-biographer Rosemary Ashton. In her introduction, Ashton discusses themes of social change in Middlemarch, and examines the novel as an imaginative embodiment of Eliot's humanist beliefs.
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