num_pages: 6
description: Taking place in the years leading up to the First Reform Bill of 1832, Middlemarch explores nearly every subject of concern to modern life: art, religion, science, politics, self, society, human relationships. Among her characters are some of the most remarkable portraits in English literature: Dorothea Brooke, the heroine, idealistic but naive; Rosamond Vincy, beautiful and egoistic: Edward Casaubon, the dry-as-dust scholar: Tertius Lydgate, the brilliant but morally-flawed physician: the passionate artist Will Ladislaw: and Fred Vincey and Mary Garth, childhood sweethearts whose charming courtship is one of the many humorous elements in the novel's rich comic vein.
language: English
title: Middlemarch
titlecomplete: Middlemarch
characters: Camden Farebrother, Nicholas Bulstrode, Mary Garth, John Raffles, Fred Vincy, Arthur Brooke, Edward Casaubon, Will Ladislaw, Joshua Rigg, Rosamond Vincy, Peter Featherstone, Celia Brooke, Caleb Garth, Sir James Chettam, Tertius Lydgate, Harriet Bulstrode, Dorothea Brooke
genres: Classics, British Literature, Novels, Romance, Historical Fiction, Literature, Audiobook, 19th Century, Fiction, Victorian
ratings_count: 158413
places: Midlands, England, West Midlands, England, England
publisher: Penguin Audiobooks