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Middlemarch
- Author
- George Eliot
- Narrator
- Juliet Aubrey
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Publish Date
- 26 September 2019
- Run Time
- 36 hours 52 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Genre
- Classic fiction: literary and general, Historical fiction, Narrative theme: social issues / social problems, Narrative theme: sense of place
- Rating
- 5.0 (1 review)
What to expect
Brought to you by Penguin.
This Penguin Classic is performed 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 Introduction by Rosemary Ashton.
George Eliot's most ambitious novel is a masterly evocation of diverse lives and changing fortunes in a provincial community. Peopling its landscape are Dorothea Brooke, a young idealist whose search for intellectual fulfillment leads her into a disastrous marriage to the pedantic scholar Casaubon; the charming but tactless Dr Lydgate, whose marriage to the spendthrift beauty Rosamund and pioneering medical methods threaten to undermine his career; and the religious hypocrite Bulstrode, hiding scandalous crimes from his past. As their stories interweave, George Eliot creates a richly nuanced and moving drama, hailed by Virginia Woolf as 'one of the few English novels written for adult people'.
(P) 2019 Penguin Audio
User Reviews
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As someone who started it in physical form, the audiobook made it a lot more accessible and I really got into it as it went on.
Alina Apine 2026-08-03
Details
- Author
- George Eliot
- Narrator
- Juliet Aubrey
- Duration
- 36 hours 52 minutes
- Release Date
- 26 September 2019
- ISBN
- 9780241422540
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Genre
- Classic fiction: literary and general, Historical fiction, Narrative theme: social issues / social problems, Narrative theme: sense of place
- Rating
- 5.0(1 review)
- Narration
- 5.0(1 review)
Synopsis
Brought to you by Penguin.This Penguin Classic is performed 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 Introduction by Rosemary Ashton. George Eliot's most ambitious novel is a masterly evocation of diverse lives and changing fortunes in a provincial community. Peopling its landscape are Dorothea Brooke, a young idealist whose search for intellectual fulfillment leads her into a disastrous marriage to the pedantic scholar Casaubon; the charming but tactless Dr Lydgate, whose marriage to the spendthrift beauty Rosamund and pioneering medical methods threaten to undermine his career; and the religious hypocrite Bulstrode, hiding scandalous crimes from his past. As their stories interweave, George Eliot creates a richly nuanced and moving drama, hailed by Virginia Woolf as 'one of the few English novels written for adult people'.(P) 2019 Penguin Audio
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