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Middlemarch: A Victorian Classic of Provincial Life, Marriage, and Moral Ambition
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781604598612
Publisher: SMK Books
Published: Mar 27 2010
Pages: 806
Weight: 2.33
Height: 1.60 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Middlemarch is George Eliot's great novel of provincial English life, marriage, ambition, reform, disappointment, and moral growth. Set in the fictional Midlands town of Middlemarch during the years surrounding the Reform Bill, the novel follows Dorothea Brooke, Tertius Lydgate, Rosamond Vincy, Fred Vincy, Mary Garth, and a wide cast of interconnected characters whose private choices are shaped by property, class, religion, gender, medicine, politics, and social expectation. Eliot gives the life of a provincial town the scope of epic fiction, showing how ordinary ambitions, compromises, errors, and acts of sympathy become the substance of history.
Widely regarded as one of the finest novels in English, Middlemarch combines psychological depth, social realism, intellectual seriousness, and humane moral vision. Its portraits of marriage, vocation, failed idealism, reforming energy, and the limits placed upon women remain central to its lasting power. For readers of Victorian literature, English literary classics, realist fiction, nineteenth-century novels, and major works of moral and social fiction, Middlemarch remains one of the essential achievements of the English novel.
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