Middlemarch

George Eliot’s beloved classic novel—hailed by Virginia Woolf as "masterful"—follows the life, loves, foibles, and politics of the residents of a fictional English town, in a sweeping study of provincial life set amid the social unrest of the Industrial Revolution. This beautifully designed Harper Perennial Deluxe Edition—with special cover effects and French flaps—includes an introduction by award-winning author Francine Prose.

The idealistic Dorothea Brooke married Edward Casaubon—a clergy...