Middlemarch - Couverture souple

Eliot, George

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1905716079 ISBN 13 : 9781905716074

Editeur : Macmillan Collector's Library, 2007

Synopsis

Middlemarch is a monumental novel, and as much a delight to read today as it has ever been. George Eliot's immortal creations, the saintly and beautiful Dorothea Brooke, the dry-as-dust Edward Casaubon and the anguished progressive Tertius Lydgate, shine forth as some of the most exquisitely drawn characters in all of English literature. Eliot was at first criticised for the 'inartistic' realism of her story, which she subtitled 'A Study of Provincial Life' as if to claim it as a scholarly contribution to the new science of sociology. But what she had really written was an eternal masterpiece of candid observation, emotional insight and transcending humour.

With an Afterword by Ned Halley.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

George Eliot (1819-80) was born Mary Ann Evans into the family of a Warwickshire land agent and did not escape provincial life until she was 30. But she was brilliantly self-educated and able at once to shine in London literary circles. It was, however, her novels of English rural life that brought her fame, starting with Adam Bede, published under her new pen name in 1859, and reaching a zenith with Middlemarch in 1871. Eliot was a devoutly moral woman but lived for 25 years with a man who already had a wife. It is indicative of the respect and love that she inspired in her most devoted readers that Queen Victoria was one of them.

Jennifer Egan is the author of The Invisible Circus, Look At Me and the short-story collection Emerald City. Her short stories have been published in the New Yorker, Harper’s, and GQ , among others, and her nonfiction appears frequently in the New York Times Magazine. She lives with her husband and son in Brooklyn.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Macmillan Collector's Library
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1905716079
• ISBN 13: 9781905716074
• Reliure: Poche
• Nombre de pages: 840
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible