Drop Cap #5
Penguin Classics
December 2012
On Sale: November 28, 2012
Featuring: Dorothea Brooke; Dr. Lydgate; Fred Vincy
912 pages ISBN: 0143123815 EAN: 9780143123811 Hardcover (reprint) Add to Wish List
E is for Eliot. Considered one the masterpieces of
realist fiction, George 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.
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