George Eliot

Middlemarch

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Produktbeschreibung

Small-town life. Grand aspirations. Can one woman's quest for purpose reshape her life and those around her? In Middlemarch, George Eliot paints a richly detailed portrait of a provincial English town and its inhabitants, exploring the intertwining lives of characters with deep ambitions and moral struggles. At the center is Dorothea Brooke, an idealistic young woman whose desire for meaningful change clashes with societal expectations. This masterful novel examines love, ambition, and personal growth, capturing the complexities of human nature and the subtle forces that shape lives in a tightly knit community.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: WLC
• Seitenzahl: 628
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 41mm
• Gewicht: 1157g
• ISBN-13: 9781434441362
• ISBN-10: 1434441369
• Artikelnr.: 36764740

Autorenporträt

Mary Ann Evans (22 November 1819 - 22 December 1880; alternatively "Mary Anne" or "Marian"), 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 is the author of seven novels, including Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), Felix Holt, the Radical (1866), Middlemarch (1871-72), and Daniel Deronda (1876), most of them set in provincial England and known for their realism and psychological insight. She used a male pen name, she said, to ensure her works would be taken seriously. Female authors were published under their own names during Eliot's life, but she wanted to escape the stereotype of women only writing lighthearted romances. She also wished to have her fiction judged separately from her already extensive and widely known work as an editor and critic. An additional factor in her use of a pen name may have been a desire to shield her private life from public scrutiny and to prevent scandals attending her relationship with the married George Henry Lewes, with whom she lived for over 20 years. Her 1872 work Middlemarch has been described by Martin Amis and Julian Barnes as the greatest novel in the English language.

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Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung | Besprechung von 28.11.2019

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WARUM JETZT DAS?

Weil es dieser Tage 200 Jahre her ist, dass George Eliot zur Welt kam. Die Autorin, die eigentlich Mary Ann Evans hieß, war als junge Frau tief religiös, später Atheistin, lebte lange unverheiratet mit einem jüngeren Mann zusammen und genoss als Schriftstellerin und Denkerin trotzdem großes Ansehen in der viktorianischen Gesellschaft. Schon das ist interessant.

UND "MIDDLEMARCH" ERST RECHT?

So ist es. Eine Kleinstadt um 1830, kurz vor sozialen und voller privater Umbrüche. Satire, Realismus, Zartheit, Humor, alles drin, von Glück bis Unglück, halb Jane Austen, halb Tolstoi. Virginia Woolf nannte das Buch den einzigen englischen Roman für Erwachsene. Ein Muss. (balk.)

George Eliot, "Middlemarch", Rowohlt Verlag, Hamburg 2019, 1264 S., geb., 40 Euro.

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