Publisher: | Signet Classic |
Genres: | Classics Books, Fiction Books, Historical Fiction |
Authors: | George Eliot |
Pages: | 892 pages |
Binding: | Hardcover |
ISBN10: | 0451529170 |
ISBN13: | 9780451529176 |
Tags: | Classics eBooks, Fiction eBooks, Historical Fiction eBooks, epub eBooks, Free epub |
Language: | en |
"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."