Middlemarch (Penguin Classics) -

George Eliot

Penguin Classics

2003

880 páginas

1d 5h 20m

ISBN-13: 9780141439549

‘People are almost always better than their neighbours think they are’

George Eliot’s most ambitious novel 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 pioneering medical methods, combined with an imprudent marriage to the spendthrift beauty Rosamond, 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 grown-up people’.

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Inicialmente projetado para ser dois livros distintos, Middlemarch tem como história central as vidas de Dorothea Brooke e Tertius Lydgate.
Na cidade que dá nome ao livro, se passa diversos acontecimentos com os dois protagonistas e uma série de outros personagens.
Um calhamaço que tem um ou outro momento monótono, mas que de um modo geral prende o leitor do início ao fim.
Mary Ann Evans, sob o pseudônimo de George Eliot, deixou para humanidade um dos maiores clássicos da literatura.