Middlemarch (Penguin Popular Classics) -

George Eliot

Penguin Popular Classics

1994

800 páginas

1d 2h 40m

ISBN-10: 0140620761

In Middlemarch, George Eliot gives us a portrait of provincial life in Victorian England that has never been surpassed.

Wit, irony, pathos and billiant insight into human nature colour every strand of plot and every beautifully drawn character. Foremost among these are Dorothea Brooke, passionate to uso her spirit and talent in a wider world than that typically afforded to women in the 1830s; Casaubon, the dry, jealous, academic; Doctor Lydgate, who dreams of pioneering research into medical science; spoilt, pretty Rosamond Vincy who Lydgate as 'a man whom it would be delightful to enslave'.

The novel centres on the marriages of Dorothea and Lydgate, and on the web of relationships that connects us to each other. While eagerly awaiting the next part of the Middlemarch serial in 1872, the Spectator critic declared that 'Middlemarch bids more than fair to be one of the great books of the world'.

note: The cover shows a detail from Townscape by Michael Rooker in the Victoria & Albert Museum (Photo: Bridgeman Art Library)

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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.