It’s a long book, a deep book, and one that deserves a whole week dedicated to it. I officially declare this week on my blog Middlemarch Week. These people loved Middlemarch, and so do I! Although I won’t use as strong of words as Siobhan, or leave it on a bookshelf in Fiji for somebody else to discover, I will tell you all about it. Phil gave it five stars and confessed: “When I finished reading this book, I wrote in the front of it that ‘This is the most rewarding book you will ever read’ and left it on a bookshelf in Fiji.” If it’s the best book, why on earth did you leave it behind? I guess he was hoping that somebody in Fiji would read it, but he later states, “I doubt anyone’s picked it up since then Fiji is a strange and frightening place.”Īnyway, you get the idea. Well, unless you go back to what Siobhan said. It’s tough to find words strong enough to describe it.” I must concur. You loved the book.Īlex wrote, “ Middlemarch is a towering achievement.

They, and a multitude of other brilliantly drawn characters, reside in the town Middlemarch – the background to George Eliot’s incomparable portrait of Victorian life.When I went to Goodreads to mark Middlemarch (number 20 on the BBC book list, which I am working my way through) as “read” and to give it five stars (yes, it’s that good), I noticed that most everybody else who had written reviews of the novel felt the same way I did. Then there is Tertius Lydgate, an anguished progressive whose determination to bring modern medicine to the provinces is muddied by unrequited love. She pursues the pompous Edward Casuabon, convinced that he embodies these principles, and becomes trapped in an unhappy marriage.

This edition features an introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Jennifer Egan.ĭorothea Brooke is a beautiful and idealistic young woman set on filling her life with good deeds.

Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure. Endlessly appealing to modern readers, Middlemarch has been adapted as a BBC Radio 4 drama.ĭesigned to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. One of BBC's 100 Novels That Shaped Our World.Ī masterpiece of candid observation, emotional insight and transcending humour, Middlemarch is a truly monumental novel.

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