My life in Middlemarch
(Book)

Book Cover
Published
New York : Crown Publishers, [2014].
Format
Book
Edition
First edition.
Status
Port Angeles - Nonfiction (Adult)
823.8 MEAD
1 available

Copies

LocationCall NumberStatusDue Date
Port Angeles - Nonfiction (Adult)823.8 MEADAvailable
Sequim - Nonfiction (Adult)823.8 MEADChecked OutApril 8, 2024

Description

Loading Description...

Also in this Series

Checking series information...

More Like This

Loading more titles like this title...

Other Editions and Formats

More Details

Published
New York : Crown Publishers, [2014].
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
293 pages ; 22 cm
Street Date
1401
Language
English

Notes

Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-293).
Description
"Rebecca Mead was a young woman in an English coastal town when she first read George Eliot's Middlemarch, regarded by many as the greatest English novel. After gaining admission to Oxford, and moving to the United States to become a journalist, through several love affairs, then marriage and family, Mead read and reread Middlemarch. The novel, which Virginia Woolf famously described as "one of the few English novels written for grown-up people," offered Mead something that modern life and literature did not. In this wise and revealing work of biography, reporting, and memoir, Rebecca Mead leads us into the life that the book made for her, as well as the many lives the novel has led since it was written. Employing a structure that deftly mirrors that of the novel, My Life in Middlemarch takes the themes of Eliot's masterpiece--the complexity of love, the meaning of marriage, the foundations of morality, and the drama of aspiration and failure--and brings them into our world. Offering both a fascinating reading of Eliot's biography and an exploration of the way aspects of Mead's life uncannily echo that of Eliot herself, My Life in Middlemarch is for every ardent lover of literature who cares about why we read books, and how they read us."--From publisher description.