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- Hardback | 880 pages
- 13.8 × 5.2 × 20.6 cm | 997
- 02 June 2011
- Penguin Books Ltd
- United Kingdom
€34.99
George Eliot’s most ambitious novel is a masterly evocation of diverse lives and changing fortunes in a provincial community. Peopling its landscape are Dorothea Brooke, a young idealist whose search for intellectual fulfillment leads her into a disastrous marriage to the pedantic scholar Casaubon.
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ISBN: 9780141196893
Book Format: Hardback
Pages: 880
Dimensions: 13.8 × 5.2 × 20.6 cm
Mary Ann Evans (George Eliot) (1819-80) was a philosopher, journalist and translator before she became a novelist, her first stories being published in 1856. She led an unconventional life, co-editing the liberal journal Westminster Review for three years and living with the married man and philosopher George Henry Lewes. Her novels are among the greatest of the nineteenth century
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