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This Penguin Classic is performed by Juliet Aubrey, who won the BAFTA for Best Actress for her role as Dorothea in the BBC serial Middlemarch. This definitive documenting includes an Launch by Rosemary Ashton.

George Eliot’s most ambitious book is a masterly evocation of diverse lives and changing fortunes within a provincial community. Peopling its panorama are Dorothea Brooke, a idealist whose search for intellectual fulfillment leads her right into a disastrous marriage towards the pedantic scholar Casaubon; the captivating but tactless Dr Lydgate, whose marriage to the spendthrift beauty Rosamund and pioneering medical strategies threaten to undermine his profession; and the religious hypocrite Bulstrode, hiding scandalous offences from his past. As their tales interweave, George Eliot creates a richly nuanced and moving drama, hailed by Virginia Woolf as ‘one from the few English books created for adult people’.

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