Complete and unabridged. One of BBC's 100 Novels That Shaped Our World. A masterpiece of candid observation; emotional insight and transcending humour; Middlemarch is a truly monumental novel. Endlessly appealing to modern readers; Middlemarch has been adapted as a BBC Radio 4 drama. Designed to appeal to the booklover; the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure. 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 Casuabon; 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; and a multitude of other brilliantly drawn characters; reside in the town Middlemarch - the background to George Eliot's incomparable portrait of Victorian life.