Paperback. Pub Date :2012-09-27 Pages: 944 Language: English Publisher: Penguin PressClassics The Penguin English Library Edition of Middlemarch by George Eliot.She did not know then that it was Love who had come to her briefly as in a dream before awaking. with the hues of morning on his wings - that it was Love to whom she was sobbing her farewell as his image was banished by the blameless rigour of irresistible dayGeorge Eliots 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 religi...