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À Middlemarch, cité imaginaire de la province anglaise, vers 1830, la jeune et intelligente Dorothea aspire à de grandes réalisations. Elle épouse le pasteur Casaubon, beaucoup plus âgé qu'elle et espère aider son mari dans les travaux de recherche pour un livre qui devrait être son chef d'oeuvre. Mais Casaubon ne la prend pas sérieux, la néglige. De plus, il prend ombrage de l'amitié qui rapproche Will Ladislaw, son cousin, et Dorothea. Ce mariage se révèle être une erreur...Le docteur Lydgate vient d'arriver à Middlemarch. Il est jeune, idéaliste, brillant mais... pauvre. Avec ses méthodes modernes, il bouscule les autres médecins de Middlemarch, s'attirant leur jalousie et par là, complique son intégration dans la petite cité. Il épouse Rosamond Vincy, la fille du maire, mais ne peut lui offrir le train de vie auquel est habituée Rosamond...Peinture de cette société victorienne confrontée à la naissance de la révolution industrielle, Middlemarch est le plus célèbre des romans de George Eliot, de son vrai nom Mary Anne Evans.

One of the most famous novelists in the English literary canon, the likes of Middlemarch and Silas Marner are household names, but Eliot's essays are often overlooked. This collection brings together some of her most important essays and seeks to celebrate her non-fiction writing.

Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe is the third novel by George Eliot. It was published in 1861. An outwardly simple tale of a linen weaver, the novel is notable for its strong realism and its sophisticated treatment of a variety of issues ranging from religion to industrialisation to community. Silas Marner is a story of loss, alienation, and redemption that combines elements of fairy tale and myth with realism and humor. Set in the fictional village of Raveloe, it centers on Silas Marner, a weaver who is forced to leave his hometown in the north after being falsely accused of theft by members of his chapel. His religious faith gone, for fifteen years Marner isolates himself from the life of the village and becomes a miser. But when the gold that he cherishes is stolen, and he adopts a child whose mother has just died, his life changes dramatically for the better.

Set in the late 1820s and 1830s, after the Napoleonic Wars, the novel spans a period of 10 to 15 years and details the life of Maggie Tulliver, and her brother Tom, growing up at Dorlcote Mill on the River Floss at its junction with the more minor River Ripple near the village of St Ogg's in Lincolnshire, England. The story begins when Maggie is 9 years old, 13 years into her parents' marriage. Main focus of the story is on her relationship with her older brother Tom, and her romantic relationships with Philip Wakem (a hunchbacked, sensitive and intellectual friend) and with Stephen Guest (a vivacious young socialite in St Ogg's and assumed fiance of Maggie's cousin Lucy Deane) constitute the most significant narrative threads.

With new illustrations and a brilliant original introduction by New Yorker writer and author of My Life in Middlemarch Rebecca Mead, the Restless Classics edition of Middlemarch presents George Eliot's masterpiece of Victorian fiction in an appealing new light.Long regarded as one of the greatest of the great English-language novels, Middlemarch by George Eliot has endured as the archetypal Victorian novel and an eternally resonant exploration of society and the individual. Centuries removed from the world of the landed gentry in 1830s England, the characters of Middlemarch remain as exquisitely drawn and deeply alive as any in literature: the pedantic, obsessive Reverend Casaubon, the idealistic Dr. Lydgate, and the spirited, striving Dorothea Brooke.A novel of marriage, Eliot's "e;study of Provincial Life"e; is also a strikingly fresh commentary on scientific and technological change, cultural and class divides, and the upheavals of a rural community experiencing global transformation. In her insightful introduction, Rebecca Mead, New Yorker writer and author of My Year in Middlemarch, explores Eliot's "e;meliorism"e;-her belief that individuals can improve society in small, everyday ways. Dorothea's successes and failures not only in love but as an ardent social reformer will resonate with all of us who look at the world today and ask, as Dorothea did in her time, "e;What could she do, what ought she to do?"e; With bold illustrations by artist Keren Katz, the Restless Classics edition of Middlemarch is a thoroughly modern edition of one of the most important novels ever written. Praise for Middlemarch"e;Middlemarch is so careful to correct any habit to side with one person rather than another that the narrator even corrects herself."e; -John Mullan, author of What Matters in Jane Austen?"e;A novel without weaknesses, it renews itself for every generation."e; -Martin Amis, author of Inside Story"e;Middlemarch, the magnificent book which with all its imperfections, is one of the few English novels written for grown-up people."e; -Virginia Woolf"e;Middlemarch shows us the contours and indeed the very language of the characters' inner lives."e;-Michael Gorra, author of Portrait of a Novel: Henry James and the Making of an American Masterpiece