num_pages: 912
description: 'One of the few English novels written for grown-up people' - Virginia Woolf'One of the finest novels in any language' - Guardian‘ If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life…’ Dorothea is bright, beautiful and rebellious. Lydgate is the ambitious new doctor in town. Both of them long to make a positive difference in the world. But their stories do not proceed as expected and both they and the other inhabitants of Middlemarch, must struggle to reconcile themselves to their fates and find their places in the world. Middlemarch contains all of life: The rich and the poor, the conventional and the radical, literature and science, politics and romance, but above all it gives us a vision of what lies within the human heart, the roar on the other side of silence.
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: 158382
places: England, Midlands, England, West Midlands, England
publisher: Vintage Classics