Middlemarch

<p><b>One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World'</b><br><br><b>'One of the few English novels written for grown-up people' Virginia Woolf</b><br><br>George Eliot's nuanced and moving novel is a masterly evocation of connected lives changing fortunes and human frailties in a provincial community. Peopling its landscape are Dorothea Brooke a young idealist whose search for intellectual fulfilment leads her into a disastrous marriage to the pedantic scholar Casaubon; Dr Lydgate whose pioneering medical methods combined with an imprudent marriage to the spendthrift beauty Rosamond threaten to undermine his career; and the religious hypocrite Bulstrode hiding scandalous crimes from his past.<br><br>Edited with an Introduction and notes by ROSEMARY ASHTON</p>