{"product_id":"middlemarch-9781784877569","title":"Middlemarch","description":"\u003cb\u003eDiscover one of the most admired, best loved and influential novels in the history of English literature. The perfect long read to lose yourself in.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'\u003ci\u003eIf we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life...'\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDorothea is bright, beautiful and rebellious. Lydgate is the ambitious new doctor in town. Both of them long to make a positive difference in the world. But their stories do not proceed as expected and both they, and the other inhabitants of Middlemarch, must struggle to reconcile themselves to their fates and find their places in the world. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eMiddlemarch\u003c\/i\u003e contains all of life: the rich and the poor, the conventional and the radical, literature and science, politics and romance, but above all it gives us a vision of what lies within the human heart, the roar on the other side of silence. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Glorious, sprawling, generous... It is a book I hope to read at every decade of my life, because I think each time it will have something new to teach me' Greta Gerwig\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e**One of the BBC's 100 Novels That Shaped Our World**\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGeorge Eliot was born in Nuneaton on 22nd November 1819. Baptized Mary Anne Evans, Eliot chose to write using a male pen name. She was sent away to school but returned when her mother died in 1836.She later moved to Coventry with her father.After her father's death she became the Assistant Editor of the Westminster Review in 1851. She also met George Henry Lewes this year and they became partners for the rest of his life. Lewes was already married, although he and his wife both considered their relationship to be an open one, but he and Eliot set up home together, much to the dismay of polite London society. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 1857 Eliot published \u003ci\u003eAmos Barton\u003c\/i\u003e in \u003ci\u003eBlackwood's Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e and in 1859 her novel \u003ci\u003eAdam Bede\u003c\/i\u003e was published to great acclaim.Her first attempt to write \u003ci\u003eMiddlemarch, \u003c\/i\u003eher most famous novel, ended in failure. Abandoning it, she began a short novella entitled \u003ci\u003eMiss Brooke \u003c\/i\u003ewhich was eventually integrated into the final version of \u003ci\u003eMiddlemarch.\u003c\/i\u003e The novel was published serially in eight parts in 1871. Lewes died in 1878 and Eliot married again in 1880. Her husband, John Walter Cross was an American who was twenty years her junior. George Eliot died on 22nd December 1880 at 4 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea and is buried in Highgate Cemetery next to Lewes.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Vintage Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50717368910098,"sku":"9781784877569","price":26.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_8df71c62-4707-47f1-9fdf-832a700816e7.jpg?v=1748693407","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/middlemarch-9781784877569","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}