It was George Eliot's ambition to create a world and portray a whole community--tradespeople, middle classes, country gentry--in the rising fictional provincial town of Middlemarch, circa 1830. Vast and crowded, rich in narrative irony and suspense, Middlemarch is richer still in character and in its sense of how individual destinies are shaped by and shape the community.
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ISBN: 9780307291561 (2009 Premier Classics trade pbk.)
ISBN: 9780141199795 (2012 Penguin English Library trade pbk.)
Physical Description:1 v. (various pagings).print
Publisher:Scarborough, Ont. ; New York : New American Library, c1964.
General Note: 2012 Penguin English Library trade paperback contains notes by Zadie Smith.1998 and 2008Oxford world's classics is edited with notes by David Carroll and an introduction by Felicia Bonaparte.1994 Penguin Classics is edited with an introduction by Rosemary Ashton.1977 Norton critical edition trade paperback edition is an authoritative text with backgrounds, reviews and criticism and is edited by Bert G. Hornback.1964 New American Library paperback edition has an afterword by Frank Kermode.[This record reflects various editions with several different introductions by various people].