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Middlemarch

A beautiful deluxe gift edition of Eliot's sweeping and romantic classic with foiled covers, marbled endpapers, sprayed edges, beautiful paper and finished with a silk ribbon.

Dorothea is bright, beautiful and rebellious. Lydgate is the ambitious new doctor in town. Both of them long to make a positive difference in the world. But their lives in the small town of Middlemarch do not proceed as expected and both they and the other inhabitants who live, work and gossip around them must struggle to reconcile themselves to their fates and find their places in the world.

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'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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