Middlemarch

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George Eliot: Middlemarch (2019, Standard Ebooks)

English language

Published Jan. 2, 2019 by Standard Ebooks.

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George Eliot” was the pen-name of Mary Ann Evans, one of the greatest of English novelists of the Victorian era. Her long novel Middlemarch, subtitled A Study of Provincial Life, is generally considered to be her finest work.

        <p>Published in eight installments between 1871 and 1872, <i>Middlemarch</i> tells the intertwined stories of a variety of people living in the vicinity of the (fictional) midlands town of Middlemarch during the early 1830s, the time of the great Reform Act. The novel is remarkable for its realistic treatment of situation, character and relationships and also demonstrates its author’s accurate knowledge of political issues, medicine, politics, and rural economy. Yet it also includes several touches of humor.</p>
        <p>The novel’s main characters include: Dorothea Brooke, a religiously-inclined and very intelligent young woman who marries a much older man believing that she can assist him in his scholarly studies; Dr. Tertius …

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Subjects

  • Didactic fiction
  • City and town life -- Fiction
  • England -- Fiction
  • Young women -- Fiction
  • Love stories
  • Domestic fiction
  • Married people -- Fiction
  • Bildungsromans