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1) Middlemarch
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"Instead of choosing to wed a wealthy landowner and settle for a comfortable life, Dorothea Brooke decides to marry Edward Casaubon -- a dull scholar who is her senior by a few decades. Dorothea hopes the union will afford her with the opportunity to share in her husband's intellectual pursuits, but even her best efforts can't save the disastrous marriage. Meanwhile, idealistic doctor Tertius Lydgate has progressive ideas about the medical field,...
2) Middlemarch
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Based on George Elliot's novel, Middlemarch is set in early nineteenth century England and charts the impact of the Industrial Revolution on the town as it divides its population into two opposing factions: the conservatives and the liberals.
3) Emma
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Novels of Jane Austen volume 4
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"The culmination of Jane Austen's genius, a sparkling comedy of love and marriage--now in a stunning 200th-anniversary Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition. Beautiful, clever, rich-- and single-- Emma Woodhouse is perfectly content with her life and sees no need for either love or marriage. Nothing, however, delights her more than interfering in the romantic lives of others. But when she ignores the warnings of her good friend Mr. Knightley and attempts...
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"A New Yorker writer revisits the seminal book of her youth--Middlemarch-- and fashions a singular, involving story of how a passionate attachment to a great work of literature can shape our lives and help us to read our own histories."--From publisher description.
"Rebecca Mead was a young woman in an English coastal town when she first read George Eliot's Middlemarch, regarded by many as the greatest English novel. After gaining admission to Oxford,...
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Penguin Classics Deluxe
Everyman's library volume no. 6
Oxford world's classics volume 2
Signet classic ; CE 670
Everyman's library volume no. 6
Oxford world's classics volume 2
Signet classic ; CE 670
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"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 A triumph of realist fiction, George Eliot's Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life explores a fictional nineteenth-century Midlands town in the midst of sweeping change. The proposed Reform Bill, the new railroads, and scientific advances are threatening upheaval on every front. Against...
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Welcome to Middlemarch, rural home of a secret community of black leopard shifters. Residence of the Mitchell brothers and their friends. All scallywags and rascals, according to the elders on the Feline council.
But with a shortage of marriageable females, what is a single man to do when his livelihood is chained to the land and there are no women to offer distraction? They get up to enough mischief to turn the oldest Mitchell brother's hair gray....
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Ce guide de lecture pratique propose un résumé et une analyse complets de Middlemarch de George Eliot. Il propose une exploration approfondie de l'intrigue, des personnages et des thèmes principaux du roman, ainsi qu'une discussion utile sur l'approche d'Eliot en matière de narration et de caractérisation. Le style clair et concis facilite la compréhension, offrant l'occasion parfaite d'améliorer vos connaissances littéraires en un rien de...
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A masterly evocation of life in a provincial English community, Middlemarch is considered perhaps the greatest novel of the Victorian era, praised by writers from Emily Dickinson to Virginia Woolf.
In the latest volume in Ig's acclaimed Bookmarked series, critically lauded author Pamela Erens talks about how Middlemarch "rescued" her, first as a distressed college student, and then during the tragic events of the global pandemic.
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Middlemarch by George Eliot is a sweeping and intricately woven novel that unfolds in the fictional English town of Middlemarch. The narrative serves as a rich tapestry, interlacing the lives of a diverse cast of characters against the backdrop of a changing society in the early 19th century. At its core, Middlemarch is a multifaceted exploration of human nature, morality, and the complex interplay of individual lives within a community. The novel...
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George Eliot's influential novel Middlemarch is, according to its subtitle, a "study of provincial life." At its center are the beautiful and inquisitive Dorothea Brooke and the ambitious young doctor Tertius Lydgate, who both have to abandon their idealist views when faced with the reality of daily life. In the novel, Eliot depicts small-town life in the 1830s with its class system, rivalries, and social restrictions in minute detail. She beautifully...
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George Eliot: Middlemarch Vollständige deutsche eBook-Neuausgabe (2022) mit über 180 verlinkten Fußnoten und Anmerkungen. George Eliots psychologischer Großroman ist ein Panoptikum der englischen Gesellschaft während des Übergangs vom landwirtschaftlichen zum industriellen Zeitalter (die Handlung spielt zwischen 1829 und 1832). Alte Ordnungen zerbröckeln, neue haben sich noch nicht etabliert. Spiegelgleich werden auf individueller Ebene die...
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A Study Guide for George Eliot's "Middlemarch," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students.This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by George Eliot, who developed the method of psychological analysis in modern fiction. Titles in this study guide include Silas Marner and Middlemarch.
As a revolutionary voice of literary realism and psychological insight of the nineteenth century, Eliot's books were, considered intellectual art with a focus on the importance of mundane life. Moreover,...
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Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d'Universalis
George Eliot, pseudonyme de Mary Ann Evans (1819-1880), passe son enfance dans une ferme du Warwickshire o son père travaille comme régisseur.
Une fiche de lecture spécialement conçue pour le numérique, pour tout savoir sur Middlemarch de George Eliot
Chaque fiche de lecture présente une œuvre clé de la littérature ou de la pensée. Cette présentation est couplée...
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This engaging summary presents an analysis of Middlemarch by George Eliot, which tells the story of two idealistic protagonists whose great aspirations are ultimately disappointed. Both characters make disastrous marriage decisions which stifle them and prevent them from fulfilling their ambitions, and also feel constrained by the limited world of the provincial town in which they live. The novel is an exceptionally accomplished portrait of 19th-century...
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This is the eBook edition of "The Complete Novels of George Eliot".
Table of Contents:
Novels:
Adam Bede
The Mill on the Floss
Silas Marner
Romola
Felix Holt, the Radical
Middlemarch
Daniel Deronda
George Eliot's Life, as Related in Her Letters and Journals — Biography
18) Middlemarch
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Based on George Eliot's novel, Middlemarch is set in early nineteenth century England and charts the impact of the Industrial Revolution on the town as it divides its population into two opposing factions: the conservatives and the liberals.
20) My Scarlet Woman
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All she wants is one perfect night of passion...
Emily Scarlet's husband left her for his secretary and died in a car accident-all on the same day. Now, six months later, Emily has emerged from her chrysalis of painful memories. And to prove she has what it takes to attract a man, she's determined to experience one perfect night of passion.
Feline shapeshifter, Saber Mitchell has a problem with his four boisterous younger brothers. They're out of...
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