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Available
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Publication
W. W. Norton & Company (1999), Edition: 2nd, 688 pages
Description
For this new edition, the text has been reset in a larger typeface for ease of reading."Backgrounds" helps readers understand Eliot's ideas on life and art with generous selections from her letters, journals, essays, and other fictional works."Contemporary Reviews" records the impressions of Sidney Colvin, Henry James, Joseph Jacobs, and Leslie Stephen."Recent Criticism" collects eleven essays-seven of them new to this edition-which center on the novel's major themes. Contributors include Mark Schorer, Jerome Beaty, Cherry Wilhelm, Robert Heilman, Lee R. Edwards, Alan Mintz, T. R. Wright, Matthew Rich, Alan Shelston, and Claudia Moscovici.A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are included.
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My Norton edition of Middlemarch is filled with the notes I made when reading it for Dr. Joseph Carroll's class. Thank you, thank you, Dr. Carroll for teaching this book. I've also using packing tape throughout the book for pages that were falling out. That's one complaint that I have about these
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Language
Original language
English
Original publication date
1871-1872 (novel)
Physical description
688 p.; 5.6 inches
ISBN
0393974529 / 9780393974522
Local notes
READIN, lr 2/2