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Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life

Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life

Eliot, George

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Classic FictionHistorical FictionLiterary Fiction

ISBN10: 1494398176
ISBN13: 9781494398170
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Dec 7 2013
Pages: 676
Weight: 1.96
Height: 1.36 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life is a novel by George Eliot, the pen name of Mary Anne Evans, later Marian Evans. It is her seventh novel, begun in 1869 and then put aside during the final illness of Thornton Lewes, the son of her companion George Henry Lewes. During the following year Eliot resumed work, fusing together several stories into a coherent whole, and during 1871-72 the novel appeared in serial form. The first one-volume edition was published in 1874, and attracted large sales. Subtitled A Study of Provincial Life, the novel is set in the fictitious Midlands town of Middlemarch, thought to be based on Coventry, during the period 1830-32. It has multiple plots with a large cast of characters, and in addition to its distinct though interlocking narratives it pursues a number of underlying themes, including the status of women, the nature of marriage, idealism and self-interest, religion and hypocrisy, political reform, and education. The pace is leisurely, the tone is mildly didactic (with an authorial voice that occasionally bursts through the narrative), and the canvas is very broad.

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