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Middlemarch
Middlemarch
Author: George Eliot
The moral struggle involved in trying to hold fast to personal integrity in a materialistic and mean-spirited society forms the dominated them of Middlemarch, George Eliot's most distinguished novel. The main ploys of this multilayered work center around two expertly realized characters: Dorothea Brooke, a passionately idealistic woman who traps...  more »
ISBN: 470646
Publication Date: 1/12/1964
Pages: 819
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Publisher: The New American Library
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover, Audio Cassette, Audio CD
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Middlemarch is a complex tale of idealism, disillusion, profligacy, loyalty and frustrated love. This penetrating analysis of the life of an English provincial town during the time of social unrest prior to the first Reform Bill of 1832 is told through the lives of Dorothea Brooke and Dr. Tertius Lydate and includes a host of other paradigm characters who illuminate the condition of English life in the mid-nineteenth century. Henry James described Middlemarch as a 'treasure-house of detail' while Virginia Woolf famously endorsed George Eliot's masterpiece as 'one of the few English novels written for grown-up people.'
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I had a hard time with all the description in this one. The main story line was good, but I just wanted Elliot to get to the point!
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