Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series,
designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable
and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile
cloth with foil stamped into the design. George Eliot's most ambitious
novel is a masterly evocation of diverse lives and changing fortunes in
a provincial community. Peopling its landscape are Dorothea Brooke, a
young idealist whose search for intellectual fulfillment leads her into
a disastrous marriage to the pedantic scholar Casaubon; the charming but
tactless Dr Lydgate, whose marriage to the spendthrift beauty Rosamund
and pioneering medical methods threaten to undermine his career; and the
religious hypocrite Bulstrode, hiding scandalous crimes from his past.
As their stories interweave, George Eliot creates a richly nuanced and
moving drama, hailed by Virginia Woolf as 'one of the few English novels
written for adult people'.