Middlemarch

George Eliot's vast, humane masterpiece anatomises an English town on the edge of reform, weaving idealists, doctors and disappointed hearts into the fullest portrait of a society the novel has ever…

At a glance In a provincial town on the brink of change, an ardent young woman longs to devote her… What it's about Middlemarch follows several interlocking lives in an English town around… Subtitled a study of provincial life, it braids these stories into a single vast web… Themes Eliot examines the gap between noble aspiration and ordinary compromise, the…

Middlemarch follows several interlocking lives in an English town around 1830: Dorothea Brooke and her disillusioning marriage, the idealistic physician Lydgate and his costly love, the wayward Fred Vincy, and the…