MiddlemarchOne of the most accomplished and prominent novels of the Victorian era, Middlemarch is an unsurpassed portrait of nineteenth-century English provincial life. Dorothea Brooke is a young woman of fervent ideals who yearns to effect social change yet faces resistance from the society she inhabits. In this epic in a small landscape, Eliot's large cast of precisely delineated characters and the rich tapestry of their stories result in a wise, compassionate, and astute vision of human nature. As Virginia Woolf declared, George Eliot "was one of the first English novelists to discover that men and women think as well as feel, and the discovery was of great artistic moment." |
Contents
BOOK | 3 |
BOOK | 115 |
BOOK THREE | 216 |
BOOK FOUR | 307 |
BOOK FIVE | 409 |
BOOK | 507 |
BOOK SEVEN | 607 |
BOOK EIGHT | 698 |
Notes | 801 |
Commentary | 819 |
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