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Middlemarch (Oxford World's Classics) |  | Author: George Eliot
Creators: Felicia Bonaparte, David Carroll
Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks
Category: Book
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Media: Paperback
Edition: New Ed. /
Pages: 904
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 5 x 1.7
ISBN: 0199536759
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.8
EAN: 9780199536757
ASIN: 0199536759
Publication Date: July 10, 2008
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 My favourite novel ever October 17, 2000
13 out of 16 found this review helpful
I read it many years ago and keep going back to my dog-eared Penguin Paperback to marvel at certain passages. It is huge and all-encompassing, and deals just as well with work as it does with love - a rare compliment indeed. Forget Dickens and Hardy and all those other writers of soap operas for children - this is truly "one of the few great novels written for grown-ups" (I quote Virginia Wolff from the back cover). (And for fans of Jane Austen, it's also a great soppy romantic page-turner with one of the most desirable female leads in literature)
Middlemarch February 28, 2009
Teresa Quayle (Manchester UK)
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
George Eliot gets inside the mindset of inhabitants of a small town and extrapolates their most innemost feelings towards each other. Fascinating read.
So complete - novels like this aren't written anymore. July 4, 2009
Louise Amkaer (Greenland)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
How can the 785 pages that comprise George Eliot's "Middlemarch" be concocted into a review that is short and still a mirror image of the novel's contents? One word comes to mind: COMPLETE.
George Eliot's "Middlemarch" is a complete study of the town of Middlemarch in 1832, including the new discoveries in medicine, politics, theology, and the people who live in Middlemarch. It is full of new knowledge, humour, insight, and everything else.
I should also that I found "Middlemarch" a mouthful. It is condensed and at times the descriptions are very long, but every description has meaning in the analysis of Middlemarch, its inhabitants, and the areas of interest in society at that time.
I find it extraordinary to think that a woman wrote "Middlemarch" in a time, where women were supposed to do a little embroidery and get married. The knowledge, "Middlemarch" is based on is immense!!
Louise.
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