{"product_id":"middlemarch-paperback-15","title":"Middlemarch - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGeorge Eliot\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eDavid Carroll\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eDavid Russell\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts'\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe greatest 'state of the nation' novel in English, \u003cem\u003eMiddlemarch\u003c\/em\u003e addresses ordinary life at a moment of great social change, in the years leading to the Reform Act of 1832. Through her portrait of a Midlands town, George Eliot addresses gender relations and class, self-knowledge and self-delusion, community and individualism. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEliot follows the fortunes of the town's central characters as they find, lose, and rediscover ideals and vocations in the world. Through its psychologically rich portraits, the novel contains some of the great characters of literature, including the idealistic but naive Dorothea Brooke, beautiful and egotistical Rosamund Vincy, the dry scholar Edward Casaubon, the wise and grounded Mary Garth, and the brilliant but proud Dr Lydgate. In its whole view of a society, the novel offers enduring insight into the pains and pleasures of life with others, and explores nearly every subject of concern to modern life: art, religion, science, politics, self, society, and, above all, human relationships. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis edition uses the definitive Clarendon text.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDavid Carroll\u003c\/strong\u003e is Emeritus Professor of English Literature at the University of Lancaster, edited the Clarendon edition of \u003cem\u003eMiddlemarch\u003c\/em\u003e (1986). As well as publishing many articles on George Eliot's fiction, he has written \u003cem\u003eChinua Achebe\u003c\/em\u003e (1980) and other essays on African literature. He is joint General Editor of the \u003cem\u003eLongman Literature in English\u003c\/em\u003e Series. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDavid Russell\u003c\/strong\u003e is Associate Professor of English and Tutorial Fellow at the University of Oxford. He is the author of \u003cem\u003eTact: Aesthetic Liberalism and the Essay Form in Nineteenth-Century Britain\u003c\/em\u003e (2017).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 864\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.6 x 7.7 x 5.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 01, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \u003cdiv\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAccelerated Reader:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \n                \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eQuiz Name:\u003c\/strong\u003e Middlemarch\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \n                \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eInterest Level:\u003c\/strong\u003e Upper Grades, 9-12\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \n                \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReading Level:\u003c\/strong\u003e 10.4\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \n                \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePoint Value:\u003c\/strong\u003e 64\u003c\/div\u003e\n                ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42177078395015,"sku":"9780198815518","price":11.83,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/266baaf6f6212b229ce5411cef8a32a7.webp?v=1733394903","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/middlemarch-paperback-15","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}