Middlemarch: Penguin Classics Audiobook (Free)

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This Penguin Classic is conducted by Juliet Aubrey, who won the BAFTA for Best Actress for her role as Dorothea in the BBC serial Middlemarch. This definitive recording includes an Launch by Rosemary Ashton.

George Eliot’s most ambitious book is a masterly evocation of diverse lives and changing fortunes inside a provincial community. Peopling its landscape are Dorothea Brooke, a young idealist whose search for intellectual fulfillment network marketing leads her right into a disastrous marriage to the pedantic scholar Casaubon; the alluring but tactless Dr Lydgate, whose relationship towards the spendthrift beauty Rosamund and pioneering medical methods threaten to undermine his profession; and the religious hypocrite Bulstrode, concealing scandalous crimes from his past. As their tales interweave, George Eliot creates a richly nuanced and shifting episode, hailed by Virginia Woolf as ‘one of the few English books created for adult people’.

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