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This beautifully designed Harper Perennial Deluxe Edition―with special cover effects and French flaps―includes an introduction by award-winning author Francine Prose. 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. The idealistic Dorothea Brooke married Edward Casaubon―a clergyman and scholar some years her senior―naively hoping their union would be a true meeting of the minds. Trapped in a lonely marriage to a tyrannical man, she finds companionship with Edward’s cousin, but her overtures risk her spotless reputation and jeopardize her future.