"In the attempt to play the critic of such works as these, one cannot help feeling that to properly analyze and explain George Eliot, another George Eliot is needed, and that all suggestion can do is to indicate the impossibility of grasping, in even the most comprehensive terms, the variety of her powers. An author whose novels it has really been a liberal education to read, one is more tempted to admire silently than to criticise at all." Arthur George Sedgwick, The Atlantic Monthly (read the entire Atlantic Monthly review)
Synopses & Reviews
It was George Eliot's ambition to create a world and portray a whole community — tradespeople, middle classes, country gentry — in the rising fictional provincial town of Middlemarch, circa 1830. Vast and crowded, rich in narrative irony and suspense,
Middlemarch is richer still in character and in its sense of how individual destinies are shaped by and shape the community.
Review:
"No Victorian novel approaches
Middlemarch in its width of reference, its intellectual power, or the imperturbable spaciousness of its narrative."
V. S. PritchettSynopsis:
This text is an updated edition of George Eliot's classic tale. The novel is a masterly evocation of diverse lives and changing fortunes in a provincial community.
Synopsis:
Strangled by the confining terms of her late husband's will, an idealistic young woman throws herself into the struggle for medical reforms advocated by a visionary doctor. Considered by many to be Eliot's finest work and one of the best novels ever written in English.
About the Author
George Eliot was the nom de plume of Mary Ann Evans (1819–1880). She began her literary career as a translator and later was editor of the
Westminster Review. In 1857 she published
Scenes of Clerical Life, the first of eight novels she would publish under the name George Eliot.
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