num_pages: 702
description: Alternate cover editions can be found here, here, here and here.Middlemarch is a complex tale of idealism, disillusion, profligacy, loyalty and frustrated love. This penetrating analysis of the life of an English provincial town is set during the time of social unrest prior to the first Reform Bill of 1832. It is told through the lives of Dorothea Brooke and Dr Tertius Lygate and includes a host of other paradigm characters who illuminate the condition of English life in the mid-nineteenth century.Henry James described Middlemarch as a 'treasure-house of detail' while Virginia Woolf famously endorsed George Eliot's masterpiece as 'one of the few English novels written for grown-up people'.
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: 158405
places: West Midlands, England, England, Midlands, England
publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd