Which edition of Middlemarch is best?

Norton Critical Edition: This edition is the most scholarly of the options, in that it conveniently packages a scrupulous edition of the novel with a selection of critical essays about it. If that’s the kind of thing your book club likes, this is the edition for you.

How many pages are in Middlemarch?

George Eliot’s 880-page-long masterpiece is not for the faint of heart. I began reading Middlemarch in 2016 – on April 16, precisely, according to my Amazon orders’ history – and I’m still not done. Nearly everything else about my life since then is different.

Has Middlemarch been made into a movie?

Andrew Davies, who has won five Baftas for his TV adaptations of novels by Jane Austen, Charles Dickens and William Thackeray, has already adapted Middlemarch for a BBC TV mini-series. He has now finished writing the script for the film.

Is Middlemarch a Victorian novel?

Middlemarch is a great Victorian novel, but like several other great Victorian novels (Vanity Fair, Wuthering Heights, Great Expectations) it is set in an earlier age. It was first published, in instalments, between 1871 and 1872, but it opens in 1829.

What genre is Middlemarch?

Novel
Historical Fiction
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Why is Middlemarch a classic?

Middlemarch shows us the contours and indeed the very language of the characters’ inner lives. The most important of those comparisons is that between Dorothea and Lydgate’s beautiful blonde wife, Rosamond. Dorothea will have to teach herself how to ask the same questions that George Eliot does.

How many episodes of Middlemarch are there?

Middlemarch is a 1994 television adaptation of the 1871 novel of the same name by George Eliot. Produced by the BBC on BBC2 in six episodes (seven episodes in the worldwide TV series), it is the second such adaptation for television of the novel.

Who is Tertius Lydgate?

Tertius Lydgate, fictional character, an ambitious, progressive physician in the novel Middlemarch (1871–72) by George Eliot.

What happens to Dorothea at the end of Middlemarch?

At the end of Middlemarch, after Casaubon dies and Dorothea frees herself from some odious provisions in his will, she marries again, this time Will Ladislaw, a vaguely artistic fellow, well educated but not much gainfully employed, who is seen by her family as low-bred. She gives up her inheritance to do so.