Middlemarch

Книга "Middlemarch". 'Many others have said it before, and more eloquently, but, man, is "Middlemarch" good. I mean, miss-your-stop-on-the-train and sneak-a-read-at-work good.' - The New YorkerConsidered one the masterpieces of realist fiction, George Eliot's novel, Middlemarch is a masterly evocation of diverse lives and changing fortunes in a provincial community. 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. As their stories interweave, George Eliot creates a richly nuanced and moving drama, hailed by Virginia Woolf as 'one of the few English novels written for adult people'.'What do I think of Middlemarch? What do I think of ...