num_pages: 848
description: The multiple plots of Middlemarch (1871-2) center on idealist Dorothea Brooke, whose aspirations to a deep spiritual life leads to her disillusioning marriage with the elderly Mr. Casaubon. In town, the life of the young doctor Lydgate and his shallow wife Rosamund mirrors her disappointments. Eliot's ingenious analysis of nineteenth century social experience refuses to comfort either the complacent or those who live according to their ethics; her novel is a masterpiece of style and a milestone in the exodus of the narrator into the twentieth century.
language: English
title: Middlemarch
titlecomplete: Middlemarch (Everyman's Library)
characters: Caleb Garth, Joshua Rigg, Celia Brooke, Dorothea Brooke, Sir James Chettam, Fred Vincy, Will Ladislaw, Rosamond Vincy, Edward Casaubon, Arthur Brooke, Mary Garth, Camden Farebrother, Nicholas Bulstrode, Peter Featherstone, John Raffles, Harriet Bulstrode, Tertius Lydgate
genres: Novels, 19th Century, Historical Fiction, Victorian, Classics, British Literature, Audiobook, Romance, Fiction, Literature
ratings_count: 158441
places: Midlands, England, England, West Midlands, England
publisher: Orion Publishing Group, Ltd.