Middlemarch (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) -

George Eliot

Penguin Classics

2015

800 páginas

1d 2h 40m

ISBN-13: 9780143107729

A triumph of realist fiction, George Eliot’s Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life explores a fictional nineteenth-century Midlands town in the midst of sweeping change. The proposed Reform Bill, the new railroads, and scientific advances are threatening upheaval on every front. Against this backdrop, the quiet drama of ordinary lives is played out by the novel’s complexly portrayed characters—until the arrival of two outsiders further disrupts the town’s equilibrium. Every bit as powerful and perceptive in our time as it was in the Victorian era, Middlemarch displays George Eliot’s clear-eyed yet humane understanding of characters caught up in the mysterious unfolding of self-knowledge.

In this elegant Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition, Rebecca Mead introduces the novel that shaped her life and reflects on its joys and its timeless relevance.

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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.