Vintage Books Middlemarch: The 150th Anniversary Edition 米德爾馬契 150周年紀念版

“As well as moving its admirers to rhapsody, Middlemarch is also supremely a work of serious literature. According to Virginia Woolf, it is "one of the few English novels written for grown-up people". Later in the 20th century the influential critic FR Leavis made Middlemarch a central element of his "Great Tradition". Today it stands as perhaps the greatest of many great Victorian novels.” — The Guardian

 

Middlemarch looms above the mid-Victorian literary landscape like a cathedral of words in whose shadowy vastness its readers can find every kind of addictive discomfort, a sequence of raw truths: the loneliness of the disappointed failure, Dr Lydgate; the frustrations of his discontented wife; the humiliation of a good woman, Dorothea; the corrosive bitterness of Casaubon, and so on.

 

Few of Eliot's characters achieve what they want, and all have to learn to compromise. Some learn the lessons and achieve temporary happiness. Others refuse or are incapable of learning and spend their lives resenting their situation and blaming others. Others still realise their mistakes but are trapped by a wrong decision and never escape.

 

The action takes place some 40 years before the moment of composition. As well as making allusions to the death of George IV, outbreaks of cholera, and the passing of the Great Reform Bill of 1832, its characters discuss the coming of the railway and the impact of industrialisation on a settled Midland English world. Here, the organising metaphor of Middlemarch becomes "the web", Eliot's representation of English society in all its airy complexity and resilience. Discover one of the most admired, best loved, and influential novels in the history of English literature.

 

Features

• Edition : anniversary
• Binding : hardcover
• ISBN : 9781784877569
• Publication Date : 2022/7/1

 

Materials & Care

• Imported