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Middlemarch (Hardcover, E Ed)
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Middlemarch (Hardcover, E Ed)
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From A to Z, the Penguin Drop Caps series collects 26 unique
hardcovers--featuring cover art by type superstar Jessica Hische It
all begins with a letter. Fall in love with Penguin Drop Caps, a
new series of twenty-six collectible and gift-worthy hardcover
editions, each with a type cover showcasing a gorgeously
illustrated letter of the alphabet by superstar type designer
Jessica Hische, whose work has appeared everywhere from Tiffany
& Co. to Wes Anderson's film Moonrise Kingdom to Penguin's own
bestsellers Committed and Rules of Civility. A collaboration
between Jessica Hische and Penguin Art Director Paul Buckley, the
series design encompasses foil-stamped paper-over-board cases in a
rainbow-hued spectrum across all twenty-six book spines and a
decorative stain on all three paper edges. Penguin Drop Caps debuts
with an -A- for Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, a -B- for
Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre, and a -C- for Willa Cather's My
Antonia, and continues with more classics from Penguin. E is for
Eliot. Considered one the masterpieces of realist fiction, George
Eliot's novel, Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life, explores a
fictional nineteenth-century Midlands town in the midst of modern
changes. The proposed Reform Bill promises political change; the
building of railroads alters both the physical and cultural
landscape; new scientific approaches to medicine incite public
division; and scandal lurks behind respectability. The quiet drama
of ordinary lives and flawed choices are played out in the
complexly portrayed central characters of the novel--the idealistic
Dorothea Brooke; the ambitious Dr. Lydgate; the spendthrift Fred
Vincy; and the steadfast Mary Garth. The appearance of two
outsiders further disrupts the town's equilibrium--Will Ladislaw,
the spirited nephew of Dorothea's husband, the Rev. Edward
Casaubon, and the sinister John Raffles, who threatens to expose
the hidden past of one of the town's elite. Middlemarch displays
George Eliot's clear-eyed yet humane understanding of characters
caught up in the mysterious unfolding of self-knowledge.
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