{"product_id":"9781411432697","title":"Middlemarch (Barnes \u0026 Noble Classics Series)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMiddlemarch\u003c\/i\u003e, by \u003cb\u003eGeorge Eliot\u003c\/b\u003e, is part of the \u003ci\u003eBarnes \u0026amp; Noble Classics\u003c\/i\u003e series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of \u003ci\u003eBarnes \u0026amp; Noble Classics\u003c\/i\u003e: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNew introductions commissioned from today's top writers and scholars \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBiographies of the authors \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFootnotes and endnotes \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSelective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eComments by other famous authors \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eStudy questions to challenge the reader's viewpoints and expectations \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBibliographies for further reading \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIndices \u0026amp; Glossaries, when appropriate\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003eAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. \u003ci\u003eBarnes \u0026amp; Noble Classics \u003c\/i\u003epulls together a constellation of influences—biographical, historical, and literary—to enrich each reader's understanding of these enduring works. Often called the greatest nineteenth-century British novelist, \u003cb\u003eGeorge Eliot\u003c\/b\u003e (the pen name of Mary Ann Evans) created in \u003ci\u003eMiddlemarch\u003c\/i\u003e a vast panorama of life in a provincial Midlands town. At the story’s center stands the intellectual and idealistic Dorothea Brooke—a character who in many ways resembles Eliot herself. But the very qualities that set Dorothea apart from the materialistic, mean-spirited society around her also lead her into a disastrous marriage with a man she mistakes for her soul mate. In a parallel story, young doctor Tertius Lydgate, who is equally idealistic, falls in love with the pretty but vain and superficial Rosamund Vincy, whom he marries to his ruin. \u003cp\u003eEliot surrounds her main figures with a gallery of characters drawn from every social class, from laborers and shopkeepers to the rising middle class to members of the wealthy, landed gentry. Together they form an extraordinarily rich and precisely detailed portrait of English provincial life in the 1830s. But Dorothea’s and Lydgate’s struggles to retain their moral integrity in the midst of temptation and tragedy remind us that their world is very much like our own. Strikingly modern in its painful ironies and psychological insight, \u003ci\u003eMiddlemarch\u003c\/i\u003e was pivotal in the shaping of twentieth-century literary realism. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLynne Sharon Schwartz\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of fourteen books of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry, including the novels \u003ci\u003eDisturbances in the Field, Leaving Brooklyn\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eIn the Family Way\u003c\/i\u003e, and the memoir \u003ci\u003eRuined by Reading\u003c\/i\u003e. Her poetry collection \u003ci\u003eIn Solitary\u003c\/i\u003e and her translation of \u003ci\u003eA Place to Live: Selected Essays of Natalia Ginzburg\u003c\/i\u003e appeared in 2002.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Barnes \u0026 Noble","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47121666769136,"sku":"9781411432697","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781411432697_p0.jpg?v=1763725376","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781411432697","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}