Middlemarch

by George Eliot

Unknown Binding

Published January 26, 2000

About the author

Mary Ann Evans, known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She wrote seven novels: Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), Romola (1862–1863), Felix Holt, the Radical (1866), Middlemarch (1871–1872) and Daniel Deronda (1876). Like Charles Dickens and Thomas Hardy, she emerged from provincial England; most of her works are set there. Her works are known for their realism, psychological insight, sense of place and detailed depiction of the countryside.
Middlemarch was described by the novelist Virginia Woolf as "one of the few English novels written for grown-up people" and by Martin Amis and Julian Barnes as the greatest novel in the English language.

Reviews

[Hermine Granger · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fantastisch, eines der besten Bücher, die ich je gelesen habe. Verfolgt verschiedene Charakter über mehrere Jahre und ermöglicht so einen tiefgehenden Blick in Lebenssituationen und -entwicklungen, der alle Eigenarten der Menschen detailliert porträtiert. Uns trennt menschlich gar nicht so viel von den Menschen von 1829 - mal abgesehen von antiquierten Verhaltensweisen und medizinischem Wissen. Unfassbar, ich kann dieses Buch nur weiterempfehlen, was ein Stück Literaturgeschichte!!!