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5 de jun. de 2023 · Middlemarch (1872) is a slow read and a deeply immersive one. George Eliot – the pen name of Mary Ann Evans (1819-1880) – built rich and complex fictional worlds that she hoped would allow ...
The appearance of two outsiders further disrupts the town’s equilibrium—Will Ladislaw, the spirited nephew of Dorothea’s husband, the Rev. Edward Casaubon, and the sinister John Raffles, who threatens to expose the hidden past of one of the town’s elite. Middlemarch displays George Eliot’s clear-eyed yet humane understanding of ...
21 de nov. de 2023 · Middlemarch is a novel by 19th-century British author George Eliot. Praised for its careful examination of social class dynamics, marriage, and provincial English life, Eliot's novel is often ...
In a 2007 authors' poll by Time, Middlemarch was voted the tenth greatest literary work ever written. In 2015, writers from outside the UK voted it first among all British novels "by a landslide". The various film and television adaptations of Eliot's books have re-introduced her to the wider reading public. Works Novels
12 de jul. de 2012 · George Eliot, Author of Middlemarch. George Eliot (November 22, 1819 – December 22, 1880; real name Mary Ann Evans; sometimes called herself Marian) was born in Warwickshire, England. Her probing Victorian novels have confirmed her reputation as a giant of English litereture; arguably, Middlemarch (1871 – 72) is her greatest achievement.
21 de nov. de 2018 · Freed from material anxiety, in the 1860s she embarked on two ambitious works of fiction: Romola (1863), a historical novel set in 14th-century Florence, and the highly political Felix Holt, the Radical (1866). Both reflected, in different ways, their author’s formidable intellect, yet neither enjoyed the success of her earlier work.
Middlemarch is George Eliot’s masterpiece, a Victorian novel on the grandest scale. Originally published in serial form in Blackwood’s Magazine in 1871-1872, it was at once a critical and popular success. ‘No Victorian novel approaches Middlemarch in its width of reference, its intellectual power, or the imperturbable spaciousness of its ...
