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The most ambitious narrative of nineteenth-century realism, Middlemarch tells the story of an entire town in the years leading up to the Reform Bill of 1832, a time when modern methods were starting to challenge old orthodoxies. Eliot's sophisticated and acute characterization gives rich expression to every nuance of feeling, and vividly brings to life the town's inhabitants – including the young idealist Dorothea Brooke, the dry scholar Casaubon, the young, passionate reformist doctor Lydgate, the flighty young beauty Rosamond and the old, secretive banker Bulstrode – as they move in counterpoint to each other. Art, religion, politics, society, science, human relationships in all their complexity, nothing is left unexamined under the narrator's microscope. One of the greatest novels written in the English language, Middlemarch is a literary landmark in its groundbreaking approach, as well as a priceless document of its age.
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Middlemarch, George Eliot
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- Released
- 2017
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- Title
- Middlemarch
- Language
- English
- Authors
- George Eliot
- Publisher
- Alma Classics
- Released
- 2017
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 752
- ISBN10
- 1847496040
- ISBN13
- 9781847496041
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Historical Themes, Religious Topics, Humor, Love, Family, Classics, Literary Fiction, Death, 19th century, Society, England, English Literature, Marriage, Diseases, Jealousy, Help, Argument
- First published
- 1871
- Original title
- Middlemarch
- Rating
- 4.45 out of 5
- Description
- The most ambitious narrative of nineteenth-century realism, Middlemarch tells the story of an entire town in the years leading up to the Reform Bill of 1832, a time when modern methods were starting to challenge old orthodoxies. Eliot's sophisticated and acute characterization gives rich expression to every nuance of feeling, and vividly brings to life the town's inhabitants – including the young idealist Dorothea Brooke, the dry scholar Casaubon, the young, passionate reformist doctor Lydgate, the flighty young beauty Rosamond and the old, secretive banker Bulstrode – as they move in counterpoint to each other. Art, religion, politics, society, science, human relationships in all their complexity, nothing is left unexamined under the narrator's microscope. One of the greatest novels written in the English language, Middlemarch is a literary landmark in its groundbreaking approach, as well as a priceless document of its age.