num_pages: 1088
description: An alternate cover edition can be found here.Few novelists have ever attempted so broad a canvas as George Eliot in her masterpiece, Middlemarch. Portraying every level of social life in a provincial Midlands town called Middlemarch, she interweaves several intensely dramatic stories of love and death, betrayal and reconciliation, into one of the finest pictures of nineteenth-century England ever created. Its acute psychological penetration also makes it an exceptionally modern work, particularly in the romantic idealism of Dorothea Brooke, who often resembles George Eliot herself, and in the disastrous marriage and thwarted career of the young reformist doctor, Lydgate. Virginia Woolf called it “one of the few English novels written for grown-up people”—and it is truly great literature that ranks among the best novels in the world.
language: English
title: Middlemarch
titlecomplete: Middlemarch
characters: Will Ladislaw, Mary Garth, Tertius Lydgate, Dorothea Brooke, Caleb Garth, John Raffles, Nicholas Bulstrode, Harriet Bulstrode, Peter Featherstone, Camden Farebrother, Joshua Rigg, Sir James Chettam, Celia Brooke, Edward Casaubon, Arthur Brooke, Fred Vincy, Rosamond Vincy
genres: Fiction, Historical Fiction, Audiobook, 19th Century, Victorian, Novels, British Literature, Romance, Literature, Classics
ratings_count: 158441
places: Midlands, England, West Midlands, England, England
publisher: Bantam Classics