num_pages: 852
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: Tertius Lydgate, Caleb Garth, Sir James Chettam, John Raffles, Arthur Brooke, Edward Casaubon, Dorothea Brooke, Camden Farebrother, Joshua Rigg, Fred Vincy, Harriet Bulstrode, Peter Featherstone, Will Ladislaw, Nicholas Bulstrode, Celia Brooke, Mary Garth, Rosamond Vincy
genres: Fiction, British Literature, Literature, Romance, Classics, Novels, 19th Century, Historical Fiction, Audiobook, Victorian
ratings_count: 158384
places: England, Midlands, England, West Midlands, England
publisher: Penguin Classics