Designed to appeal to book lovers, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of popular classics. The books in the Macmillan Collector's Library are meant to be loved and cherished. This edition includes an introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Jennifer Egan.

Dorothea Brooke is a beautiful and idealistic young woman determined to fill her life with good deeds. She pursues the pompous Edward Casaubon, convinced that he embodies these principles, and finds herself in an unhappy marriage. Then there is Tertius Lydgate, a tortured progressive whose determination to bring modern medicine to the provinces is clouded by unrequited love. She and a variety of other brilliantly drawn characters inhabit the town of Middlemarch, the backdrop for George Eliot's unparalleled portrait of Victorian life.

An eternal masterpiece of honest observation, emotional insight, and overarching humor, Middlemarch is a truly monumental novel.