Description
About the Author
Mary Ann Evans (George Eliot) (1819-80) was a philosopher, journalist and translator before she became a novelist, her first stories being published in 1856. She led an unconventional life, co-editing the liberal journal Westminster Review for three years and living with the married man and philosopher George Henry Lewes. Her novels are among the greatest of the nineteenth century
Reviews
"Middlemarch, the magnificent book which with all its imperfections is 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 behaviour."
-Hermione Lee
"No Victorian novel approaches Middlemarch in its width of reference, its intellectual power, or the imperturbable spaciousness of its narrative...I doubt if any Victorian novelist has as much to teach the modern novelists as George Eliot...No writer has ever represented the ambiguities of moral choice so fully".
-V. S. Pritchett
"Middlemarch is probably the greatest English novel."
-Julian Barnes
"It is possible to argue that Middlemarch is the greatest English novel."
-A. S. Byatt
"Certainly the greatest [English] novel."
-Martin Amis
Book Information
ISBN 9780143107729
Author George Eliot
Format Paperback
Page Count 800
Imprint Penguin Classics
Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
Weight(grams) 816g
Dimensions(mm) 213mm * 145mm * 35mm