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Extremities rubbed, a little spotting to front prelims. First edition in book form of George Eliot's sixth and greatest novel. The book proved problematic in some ways as it became too long for the traditional three-decker format. A Study of Provincial Life. Contemporary red half morocco by Maclehose of Glasgow, raised bands to spines, lettered in gilt, marbled sides, endpapers and edges.
Spines notably bright, slight wear to spine ends and tips, a few spots of foxing but overall a wide-margined, attractively bound set, complete with half-titles. The son of a successful Glasgow merchant and banker, Dennistoun was a director of the Union Bank of Scotland best-known as the founder of the Dennistoun district of Glasgow. William Blackwood and Sons, Late 19th to early 20th century binding by "Robertson" in Edinburgh. A complete first edition set retaining all four half-titles. Three quarter polished calf over marbled boards. Top edges gilt, marbled end papers. An excellent copy overall.
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Praised from the outset of her career, George Eliot was credited by contemporary critics as the founder of "a new school of novel-writing, proving that this literary form could be adapted in sklilful hands to purposes which her predecessors had never dreamed of" Atlantic Monthly, Among her major works, Middlemarch stands out for its astute observations of human character and its investment in the ideas of Fate and Destiny directing the course of human lives. A complex tale of interwoven lives within a provincial English space, Middlemarch's central characters have become metonyms for the novel as a whole: In an age where courtship and the romance leading up to marriage formed the common plot, Eliot instead used these figures and Middlemarch to explore marriage itself, and how these relationships and lives ultimately fray.
Indeed, at the center of it all, Eliot emphasizes two female figures, without whom the climax could never occur. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English Whitmore Rare Books Published: Four small octavo volumes Extremities rubbed, leather a bit dried, textblock trimmed quite close, affecting bottom line of Vol. I title page without loss of meaning. Contemporary ownership signature dated London, , to Vol.
I title page; attractive contemporary ownership bookplates printed in red of a C. Chivers to front free endpapers. A Very Good set overall. Lorne Bair Rare Books Published: A Study in Provincial Life. Original green cloth, spines lettered in gilt, decorative border in black to covers, brown coated endpapers.
Contemporary ownership inscription to half-title of vol. Spines rolled and slightly darkened, joints slightly tender with slight splitting to rear joint of vol. I, light rubbing to covers, slight abrasion to front hinge of vol. I, light foxing to edges, slight foxing to preliminary and final leaves. Second edition in book form. Middlemarch, Eliot's sixth novel, was first published in The book's gestation had been problematic, being slow in composition and growing too long for the traditional three-decker format.
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Despite mixed contemporary reviews, it has since become Eliot's most famous work and is widely recognised as one of the great literary achievements of the 19th century. As a copy in original cloth and excellent condition, the set represents an attractive offering for collectors who do not have the five figure sum needs to purchase the first edition.
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A first edition set of George Eliot's novel Middlemarch. Without errata slip and half title to volume I. Eliot began writing the two pieces that would eventually form Middlemarch during the years —70 and completed the novel in Although the first reviews were mixed, it is now widely regarded as her best work and one of the greatest novels written in English. Middlemarch originates in two unfinished pieces that Eliot worked on during the years and In August she began writing, but progress ceased in the following month amidst a lack of confidence about it and distraction caused by the illness of George Henry Lewes 's son Thornie, who was dying of tuberculosis.
Following Thornie's death on 19 October , all work on the novel stopped; it is uncertain at this point whether or not Eliot intended to revive it at a later date. Although a precise date is unknown, the process of incorporating material from "Middlemarch" into the story she had been working on was ongoing by March By May , the growing length of the novel had become a concern to Eliot, as it threatened to exceed the three-volume format that was the norm in publishing.
With the deaths of William Makepeace Thackeray and Charles Dickens in and , respectively , Eliot was "generally recognised as the greatest living English novelist" at the time of the novel's final publication. Middlemarch is centred on the lives of the residents of Middlemarch, a fictitious Midlands town, from onwards—the years preceding the Reform Act.
The narrative is variably considered to consist of three or four plots of unequal emphasis: The two main plots are those of Dorothea and Lydgate. Dorothea Brooke is a year-old orphan, living with her younger sister, Celia, under the guardianship of her uncle, Mr Brooke. Dorothea is an especially pious young woman, whose hobby involves the renovation of buildings belonging to the tenant farmers, though her uncle discourages her.
Dorothea is courted by Sir James Chettam, a young man close to her own age, but she remains oblivious to him. She is instead attracted to The Reverend Edward Casaubon, who is 45, and Dorothea accepts his offer of marriage, despite her sister's misgivings. Chettam is meanwhile encouraged to turn his attention to Celia, who has developed an interest in him. Fred and Rosamond Vincy are the eldest children of Middlemarch's town mayor. Having never finished university, Fred is widely considered a failure and a layabout, but he allows himself to coast because he is the presumed heir of his childless uncle Mr.
Featherstone, an unpleasant, though rich, man. Featherstone keeps a niece of his through marriage, Mary Garth, as a companion, and, though she is considered plain, Fred is in love with her and wants to marry her. On their honeymoon in Rome , Dorothea and Casaubon experience the first tensions in their marriage when Dorothea finds that her husband has no interest in involving her with his intellectual pursuits, which was her chief reason for marrying him. She meets Will Ladislaw, Casaubon's much younger cousin whom he supports financially.
Ladislaw begins to feel attracted to Dorothea, though she remains oblivious, and the two become friendly. Fred develops a deep debt and finds himself unable to repay the money. Garth, Mary's father, to co-sign the debt, he now tells Garth he must forfeit it. As a result, Mrs. Garth's savings, which represent 4 years worth of income she held in reserve for the education of her youngest son, and Mary's savings are completely wiped out.
Garth warns Mary against ever marrying Fred. Fred comes down with an illness and is cured by Dr. Tertius Lydgate, the newest doctor in Middlemarch. Lydgate has new ideas about medicine and sanitation, and believes that doctors should prescribe but not themselves dispense medicines, drawing the ire and criticism of many in the town. Rosamond Vincy, who is well-educated and seeks to make a good match, decides to marry Lydgate and uses Fred's sickness as an opportunity to get close to the doctor. Though he initially views their relationship as pure flirtation, Lydgate backs away from Rosamond after discovering that the town considers them practically engaged.
However, after seeing her a final time, he breaks his resolution to abandon his relationship with Rosamond and the two become engaged. At roughly the same time, Casaubon, returned from Rome, suffers a heart attack. Lydgate is brought in to attend to him and informs Dorothea that the nature of Casaubon's illness and recovery is difficult to pronounce upon, that he may indeed live around fifteen years if he takes it easy and ceases his studies, although it is equally possible the disease may develop rapidly, in which case death would be sudden.
Meanwhile, as Fred recovers, Mr. On his deathbed, he reveals that he has two wills and tries to get Mary to help him destroy one. Unwilling to be mixed up in the business of his will, she refuses, and Featherstone dies with the two wills still intact. In poor health, Casaubon attempts to extract from Dorothea a promise that, should he die, she will "avoid doing what I should deprecate, and apply yourself to do what I should desire". He dies before she can reply, and she later learns of a provision in his will that, if she marries Ladislaw, she will lose her inheritance.
The peculiar nature of Casaubon's will leads to general suspicion that Ladislaw and Dorothea are lovers, creating awkwardness between the two. Ladislaw is secretly in love with Dorothea but keeps this to himself, having no desire to involve her in scandal or to cause her disinheritance. He remains in Middlemarch, working as a newspaper editor for Mr Brooke, who is mounting a campaign to run for Parliament under a Reform platform. Lydgate's efforts to please Rosamond soon leave him deeply in debt, and he is forced to seek help from Bulstrode.
He is partly sustained through this by his friendship with Camden Farebrother. Meanwhile Fred Vincy's humiliation at being responsible for Caleb Garth's financial setbacks shocks him into reassessing his life. He resolves to train as a land agent under the forgiving Caleb. John Raffles, a mysterious man who knows of Bulstrode's shady past, appears in Middlemarch, intending to blackmail him.
In his youth, the church-going Bulstrode engaged in questionable financial dealings, and his fortune is founded on his marriage to a much older, wealthy widow. Bulstrode's terror of public exposure as a hypocrite leads him to hasten the death of the mortally sick Raffles, while lending a large sum to Lydgate to allay his suspicions. However, the story of his past has already spread. Bulstrode's disgrace engulfs Lydgate, as knowledge of the loan becomes known, and he is assumed to be complicit with Bulstrode.
Only Dorothea and Farebrother maintain faith in him, but Lydgate and Rosamond are nevertheless encouraged by the general opprobrium to leave Middlemarch. The disgraced and reviled Bulstrode's only consolation is that his wife stands by him as he too faces exile.
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When Mr Brooke's election campaign collapses, Ladislaw decides to leave the town and visits Dorothea to say his farewell. But Dorothea has also fallen in love with him, whom she had previously seen only as her husband's unfortunate relative.
It is still the beginning of the home epic--the gradual conquest or irremediable loss of that complete union which makes the advancing years a climax, and age the harvest of sweet memories in common. Some set out, like Crusaders of old, with a glorious equipment of hope and enthusiasm and get broken by the way, wanting patience with each other and the world.
To give a masterpiece of world literature, which is what Middlemarch is, only five stars is to fail to acknowledge its greatness. Yes, it's a bit slow in the beginning; yes, it's long and written in a leisurely pace; yes, it's written in the English style of the 19th century, which is a far cry from modern prose. But in depth and precision of characterization, in its ability to penetrate to the core of human experience, and in its creation of a picture of an entire wold, there are few, if any books, that can match it. It is, indeed--as Virginia Wolf said--a novel for adults.
Many others have pointed out the particular beauties and wisdom of the novel better than I can, so let me point out a particular feature that Amazon offers that I have used. If you buy the Kindle version of this Oxford edition of Middlemarch you can, for an extra few dollars, also get the Audible version read by Juliet Stevenson.
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Also, the two versions sync together, so you can read a few chapters, and then switch over on your IPad or iPhone to Stevenson's reading, and then switch back whenever you wish. Stevenson's reading is legendary for a reason: I learned a lot from listening to her--especially in revealing the humor in the book, which I missed in my own reading. But I also wanted to read on my own as well. Amazon had made this now possible at a very reasonable price, and I heartily recommend it.
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