num_pages: 827
description: One of the most accomplished and prominent novels of the Victorian era, Middlemarch is an unsurpassed portrait of nineteenth-century English provincial life. Dorothea Brooke is a young woman of fervent ideals who yearns to effect social change yet faces resistance from the society she inhabits. In this epic in a small landscape, Eliot's large cast of precisely delineated characters and the rich tapestry of their stories result in a wise, compassionate, and astute vision of human nature. As Virginia Woolf declared, George Eliot "was one of the first English novelists to discover that men and women think as well as feel, and the discovery was of great artistic moment."
language: English
title: Middlemarch
titlecomplete: Middlemarch
characters: Fred Vincy, Mary Garth, Rosamond Vincy, John Raffles, Nicholas Bulstrode, Harriet Bulstrode, Arthur Brooke, Dorothea Brooke, Edward Casaubon, Celia Brooke, Camden Farebrother, Tertius Lydgate, Caleb Garth, Will Ladislaw, Sir James Chettam, Peter Featherstone, Joshua Rigg
genres: Literature, Audiobook, Classics, Novels, Victorian, 19th Century, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Romance, British Literature
ratings_count: 158397
places: West Midlands, England, England, Midlands, England
publisher: Modern Library