MIDDLEMARCH / POSSESSION

Descriere

Dorothea is bright, beautiful and rebellious and has married the wrong man. Lydgate is the ambitious new doctor in town and has married the wrong woman. 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.

Middlemarch contains all of life: the rich and the poor, the conventional and the radical, literature and science, politics and romance. Eliot’s novel is a stunningly compelling insight into the human struggle to find contentment.

Middlemarch comes up again and again as the book people choose when asked to pick their favourite novel of all time. It’s definitely one of mine and it’s really fantastic to have Zadie Smith introducing it for us. I really love the jacket for this edition as well as it’s such a quintessentially English novel.