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Middlemarch Volume 1

Author
George Eliot
Read by
Eloise Fairfax
Language
English
Length
7 hours 40 minutes
ISBN
9781802562989
Published
3 February 2025
Imprint
Sovereign
  • provincial England
  • marriage
  • ambition
  • social reform
  • idealism
  • disillusionment
  • community
  • relationships
  • societal pressure
  • Victorian era

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George Eliot's Middlemarch intricately portrays the lives of diverse characters in a provincial English town. Dorothea Brooke, a woman of idealistic aspirations, seeks purpose in marriage and reform. Meanwhile, Dr. Lydgate, a brilliant physician, strives to revolutionize medicine. Their stories, along with others, intertwine, revealing the complexities of human relationships, societal pressures, and the challenges of living with integrity in a changing world. The novel explores themes of ambition, disillusionment, and the search for meaning.

Author

George Eliot, a prominent Victorian novelist and one of the pioneers of psychological realism, exemplifies the quintessential characteristics that define literary greatness within the context of nineteenth-century British literature.

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