Books by David Russell
Middlemarch (Oxford World's Classics)
by George Eliot, David Russell
'The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts'
The greatest 'state of the nation' novel in English, Middlemarch addresses ordinary life at a moment of great social change, in the years leading to the Reform Act of 1832. Through her portrait of a Midlands town, George Eliot addresses gender relations and class, self-knowledge and self-delusion, community and individualism.
Eliot follows the fortunes of the town's central characters as they find, lose, and rediscover ideals and vocations in the world. Through its psychologically rich portraits, the novel contains some of the great characters of literature, including the idealistic but naive Dorothea Brooke, beautiful and egotistical Rosamund Vincy, the dry scholar Edward Casaubon, the wise and grounded Mary Garth, and the brilliant but proud Dr Lydgate. In its whole view of a society, the novel offers enduring insight into the pains and pleasures of life with others, and explores nearly every subject of concern to modern life: art, religion, science, politics, self, society, and, above all, human relationships.
This edition uses the definitive Clarendon text.
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Middlemarch (Oxford World's Classics)
by George Eliot, David Russell
This panoramic work--considered the finest novel in English by many critics--offers a complex look at English provincial life at a crucial historical moment, and, at the same time, dramatizes and explores some of the most potent myths of Victorian literature.
Taking place in the years leading up to the First Reform Bill of 1832, Middlemarch explores nearly every subject of concern to modern life: art, religion, science, politics, self, society, human relationships. Among her characters are some of the most remarkable portraits in English literature: Dorothea Brooke, the heroine, idealistic but näive; Rosamond Vincy, beautiful and egoistic: Edward Casaubon, the dry-as-dust scholar: Tertius Lydgate, the brilliant but morally-flawed physician: the passionate artist Will Ladislaw: and Fred Vincey and Mary Garth, childhood sweethearts whose charming courtship is one of the many humorous elements in the novel's rich comic vein.
Felicia Bonaparte has provided a new Introduction for this updated edition, the text of which is taken from David Carroll's Clarendon Middlemarch (1986), the first critical edition.
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The Fantasy Book: A Pillow Book of Romantic Fantasies
Everyone has sexual fantasies, but most of us are too shy to ask for what we want from our partners. With The Fantasy Book, couples can easily explore their fantasies . . . without ever having to say a word. Here, the gap between erotic desire and reality is bridged with the help of forty fantasies, ripe with magnificent, sensual photos, poems, and quotations from a thousand years of literature. Simply choose the fantasy you want, place the ribbon marker at that page, and leave the book for your partner to find. The Fantasy Book is a tantalizing invitation to indulge in new levels of passion—no blushing required.
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