Middlemarch

byGeorge Eliot, Zadie Smith (Introducer)

The 150th Anniversary Edition introduced by Zadie Smith

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Dorothea Brooke longs to do good, but marriage, ambition and provincial gossip test her every intention.

This Vintage Classics 150th anniversary gift edition, with an introduction by Zadie Smith, celebrates one of the most admired novels in English literature.

Dorothea Brooke is intelligent, idealistic and hungry for a meaningful life. Tertius Lydgate arrives in Middlemarch with medical ambition and reforming zeal. Around them, marriages, inheritances, debts, politics, gossip and moral compromise bind a whole provincial community together.

George Eliot explores love, disillusionment, scandal and private goodness with unmatched sympathy and intelligence.

First published in instalments from 1871, Middlemarch remains a profound novel about marriage, ambition, reform, religion, science and the hidden influence one life can have on another.

One of the BBC’s 100 Novels That Shaped Our World, this edition is a beautiful classic gift for readers seeking Victorian fiction, literary classics and one of the great studies of the human heart.

**One of the BBC's 100 Novels That Shaped Our World**

Perhaps the greatest novel of them all... An enormous canvas and a vast and poignant range of character...a marvellous portrait of nineteenth-century provincial life
Joanna Trollope, Guardian

About George Eliot

Mary Ann Evans (George Eliot) (1819-80) was a philosopher, journalist and translator before she became a novelist, her first stories being published in 1856. She led an unconventional life, co-editing the liberal journal Westminster Review for three years and living with the married man and philosopher George Henry Lewes. Her novels are among the greatest of the nineteenth century

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