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Middlemarch

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Middlemarch

2008 · George Eliot

Fiction

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7.8
#5 of 348 books
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3
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Mixed
Range of opinion
15.510

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Writing at the very moment when the foundations of Western thought were being challenged and undermined, George Eliot fashions in Middlemarch a concept of life and society free of the past's dogma yet able to confront the scepticism that was taking over the age. Felicia Bonaparte has provided a new Introduction for this updated edition, the text of which is taken from David Carroll's Clarendon Middlemarch (1986), the first critical edition.

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  • Eliot understood women's inner lives a century before anyone gave her credit for it.

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