Middlemarch

Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much-loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library books are meant to be loved and treasured. This edition features an introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Jennifer Egan.

Dorothea Brooke is a beautiful and idealistic young woman set on filling her life with good deeds. She pursues the pompous Edward Casaubon, convinced that he embodies these principles, and becomes trapped in an unhappy marriage. Then there is Tertius Lydgate, an anguished progressive whose determination to bring modern medicine to the provinces is muddied by unrequited love. They, along with a multitude of other brilliantly drawn characters, reside in the town of Middlemarch, the backdrop to George Eliot's incomparable portrait of Victorian life.

An eternal masterpiece of candid observation, emotional insight, and transcending humor, Middlemarch is a truly monumental novel.