George Eliot, de son vrai nom Mary Ann (ou Mary Anne) Evans, est une romanci re britannique n e le 22 novembre 1819 Nuneaton et morte le 22 d cembre 1880 Chelsea, Londres.
A masterwork of fiction, Middlemarch traces these four lives in a plot that illuminates the social fabric of mid-nineteenth-century England.
The text of Middlemarch is that of the 1874 edition, the last corrected by the author.
Considéré comme le chef-d'oeuvre de la grande romancière anglaise, ce roman de 1872 est une chronique provinciale racontant deux mariages malheureux avec un réalisme psychologique qui annonce Henry James.
Middlemarch
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Set in early nineteenth century England; the story of Dorothea Brooke, her family, friends & acquaintances in the town of Middlemarch. One episode of a seven part television series.
Among her characters are some of the most remarkable portraits in English literature: Dorothea Brooke, the heroine, idealistic but naive; Rosamund Vincy, beautiful and egoistic; Edward Casaubon, the dry-as-dust scholar; Tertius Lydgate, the ...
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The quiet drama of ordinary lives and flawed choices are played out in the complexly portrayed central characters of the novel-the idealistic Dorothea Brooke; the ambitious Dr. Lydgate; the spendthrift Fred Vincy; and the steadfast Mary ...
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As The Guardian notes, Middlemarch “looms above the mid-Victorian literary landscape like a cathedral of words,” offering readers a pivotal shaping of literary realism.
Vast and crowded, rich in irony and suspense, Middlemarch is richer still in character, with two of the era's most enduring characters, Dorothea Brooke, trapped in a loveless marriage, and Lydgate, an ambitious young doctor.
In Mr. Brooke the hereditary strain of Puritan energy was clearly in abeyance; but in his nieceDorothea it glowed alike through faults and virtues, turning sometimes into impatience of heruncle's talk or his way of "letting things be" on ...
Middlemarch
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not like it, you are all right. But it's a pity you should not have little recreations of that sort, Casaubon: the bow always strung – that kind of thing, you know – will not do.” “I never could look on it in the light of a recreation ...
Eliot began writing the two pieces that would form the novel in 1869-1870 and completed it in 1871. Initial reviews were mixed, but it is now seen widely as her best work and one of the great novels in English.