{"product_id":"9781922079329","title":"The Road to Middlemarch","description":"Author: Mead, Rebecca\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781922079329\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: The Text Publishing Company\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 29 Jan 2014\u003cbr\u003ePages: 320 \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhat would happen if I stopped to consider how Middlemarch has shaped my understanding ofmy own life? Why did the novel still feel so urgent, after all these years? And what could it giveme now, as I paused here in the middle of things, and surveyed where I had come from, andthought about where I was, and wondered where I might go next?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e At the age of 17, Rebecca Mead read \u003ci\u003eMiddlemarch\u003c\/i\u003e for the first time, and has read it again everyfive years since, interpreting and discovering it anew each time. In \u003ci\u003eThe Road to Middlemarch\u003c\/i\u003eshe writes passionately about her relationship with this remarkable Victorian novel-loved by somany-and explores how its characters and their stories, along with George Eliot's own lifeexperiences, can answer some of our fundamental questions about life and love.\u003cbr\u003e Written when Eliot was 51, \u003ci\u003eMiddlemarch\u003c\/i\u003e has at its centre one of literature's most compelling andill-fated marriages, and some of the most tenderly drawn characters-their most intimatestruggles, their ambitions, dreams, and attachments. Mead interweaves her own reflections onadolescence, relationships and marriage to explore how \u003ci\u003eMiddlemarch\u003c\/i\u003e teaches us to begrown-ups, and to value the limitations of our ordinary lives. \u003ci\u003eThe Road to Middlemarch\u003c\/i\u003e is a sensitive work of deep reading and  biography, for every reader of literature who cares about why we read  books and how they read us.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48145029890206,"sku":"UBD-9781922079329","price":32.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781922079329.jpg?v=1786878951","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781922079329","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}