Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life

The Restless Classics edition of Middlemarch is a new edition of George Eliot's masterpiece of Victorian fiction, with new illustrations and an original introduction by Rebecca Mead. Mead explores Eliot's "meliorism" and the characters' inner lives, making it a relevant and resonant exploration of society and the individual.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 752 pages
Publication date: 30 September 2021
Publisher: Regan Arts

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 "study of Provincial Life" 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 "meliorism"—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, "What could she do, what ought she to do?" 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:
"Middlemarch is so careful to correct any habit to side with one person rather than another that the narrator even corrects herself." —John Mullan, author of The Magus

Weight: 1074g
Dimension: 309 x 153 x 44 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781632063069