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Unique Elements This edition has been annotated with the following unique content. Historical Context Detailed 19th Century Analysis Most Popular George Eliot Novel (Mary Ann Evans) English novelist, George Eliot's, historical fiction novel Middlemarch was initially published... Read Full Overview

One 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... Read Full Overview

'The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts'

Introduction and Notes by Doreen Roberts, Rutherford College, University of Kent at Canterbury. Middlemarch is a complex tale of idealism, disillusion, profligacy, loyalty and frustrated love. This penetrating analysis of the life of an English provincial town during the time... Read Full Overview

Distinct Features * Background Information / Historical Context * Thorough Map of Historical Events from the 19th Century " Middlemarch : A Study of Provincial Life" is a novel written by George Eliot , whose real name is Mary Anne Evans . It was first published in eight parts... Read Full Overview

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One of the best-loved works of the nineteenth century, Middlemarch explores the complex social relationships in a town that moves and breathes with a life of its own.

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Middlemarch is set in the fictitious Midlands town of Middlemarch during 1829-32, and it comprises several distinct and intersecting stories and a large cast of characters. The narrative is variably considered to consist of three or four plots of unequal emphasis: the life... Read Full Overview

For this new edition, the text has been reset in a larger typeface for ease of reading.

"Backgrounds" helps readers understand Eliot's ideas on life and art with generous selections from her letters, journals, essays, and other fictional works.

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Set during the early part of the 19th century, George Eliot's "Middlemarch" is a work of epic scope that centers on the intersecting lives of the inhabitants of the fictitious titular town of Middlemarch. The themes of the novel are as numerous as its characters. Through the... Read Full Overview

Discover one of the most admired, best loved and influential novels in the history of English literature. The perfect long read to lose yourself in. ' If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life...' Dorothea is bright, beautiful and rebellious. Lydgate is the... Read Full Overview

George Eliot's Middlemarch(1871-72) is one of the classic novels of English literature and was admired by Virginia Woolf as "one of the few English novels written for grown-up people." The complex main plot and many subplots revolve around Dorothea Brooke, an ardent young woman,... Read Full Overview