George Eliot's beloved masterpiece in a Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition with a foreword by Rebecca Mead, author of the bestselling memoir My Life in Middlemarch
" Middlemarch, the magnificent book which with all its imperfections is one of the few English novels written for grown-up people."
--Virginia Woolf
"The most profound, wise and absorbing of English novels . . . and, above all, truthful and forgiving about human behaviour."
--Hermione Lee
No Victorian novel approaches Middlemarch in its width of reference, its intellectual power, or the imperturbable spaciousness of its narrative...I doubt if any Victorian novelist has as much to teach the modern novelists as George Eliot...No writer has ever represented the ambiguities of moral choice so fully.
--V. S. Pritchett
Middlemarch is probably the greatest English novel.
--Julian Barnes
It is possible to argue that Middlemarch is the greatest English novel.
--A. S. Byatt
Certainly the greatest [English] novel.
--Martin Amis
George Eliot (1819-1880), whose real name was Mary Ann Evans Cross, left school at the age of sixteen and embarked on a program of independent study to further her intellectual growth before becoming one of the leading novelists of the Victorian era. Her seven novels also include The Mill on the Floss, Adam Bede, and Silas Marner.
Rebecca Mead is a staff writer at the New Yorker and the author of My Life in Middlemarch. She lives in New York.
Penguin Group
Pub Date: November 17, 2015
1.5" H x 8.3" L x 5.4" W
800 pages
paperback