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Binding: Paperback
EAN: 9780140620764
ISBN: 0140620761
Label: Penguin Books
Manufacturer: Penguin Books
Book Pages: 800
Publication Date: 1994-05-26
Publisher: Penguin Books
Studio: Penguin Books

Customer Rating:
Review Summary: As classics go, it's pretty classic
Review: Rarely have I enjoyed a classic with more surprise than Middlemarch. It looks to be an endless and boring morality tale from the plot summary, but reads like a work of high psychological art.
The only other writer who has taken me so convincingly inside the thoughts of so many characters is Shakespeare. A strong compliment, but Eliot shows that she had the goods and somehow weaves an epic and beguilingly entertaining tale out of a quite depressing subject and period.
I recall not wanting this book to end; for an 800-pager, that's strong praise indeed.
They don't write 'em like this anymore!
I love this Penguin edition; they've been doing it right for so long that their versions of the classics have all the right, simple touches.
Truly great writing makes you feel ennobled for having read it; Middlemarch is most decidedly one of those books.

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