num_pages: 578
description: In a panoramic sweep of the years leading up to the First Reform Bill of 1832, George Eliot 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; Rosamund 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 Vincy and Mary Garth, childhood sweethearts whose charming courtship is one of the many humorous elements in the novel's comic vein.
language: English
title: Middlemarch: An Authoritative Text, Backgrounds, Reviews and Criticism
titlecomplete: Middlemarch: An Authoritative Text, Backgrounds, Reviews and Criticism
characters: Celia Brooke, Nicholas Bulstrode, Arthur Brooke, Will Ladislaw, Mary Garth, Rosamond Vincy, Edward Casaubon, Caleb Garth, Joshua Rigg, John Raffles, Harriet Bulstrode, Tertius Lydgate, Camden Farebrother, Dorothea Brooke, Sir James Chettam, Fred Vincy, Peter Featherstone
genres: Audiobook, Historical Fiction, Novels, Literature, Victorian, Classics, British Literature, Romance, Fiction, 19th Century
ratings_count: 158378
places: England, West Midlands, England, Midlands, England
publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc (Np)