Middlemarch wells sleeping under the stars with

sleeping under the stars with his stomach growling

Her first position with the wild and unruly Bloomfield children proves disastrous

these are the works of a poet and lyricist who has plumbed the depths of our darkest questions and come up wanting

and offers both those who are familiar with and those who are new to his works a fresh insight into the thought processes and the worldview of Italy's last great polymath

the divided East and West refuse to parley

Middlemarch wells sleeping under the stars withThe most ambitious narrative of nineteenth century realism, Middlemarch tells the story of an entire town in the years leading up to the Reform Bill of 1832, a time when modern methods were starting to challenge old orthodoxies. Eliot's sophisticated and acute characterization gives rich expression to every nuance of feeling, and vividly brings to life the town's inhabitants including the young idealist Dorothea Brooke, the dry scholar Casaubon, the