George Eliot 
Middlemarch (Barnes & Noble Collectible Editions) 

Subtitled “A Study of Provincial Life, ” George Eliot’s novel
Middlemarch is a chronicle of the titular nineteenth-century Midlands town in the midst of political and social change.  Eliot explores the upheaval and transformation brought about by these changes through their impact on the lives of a richly varied cast of characters that includes the pious young Dorothea Brooke, her suitor the Reverend Edward Casaubon, the ambitious doctor Tertius Lydgate, and the mysterious schemer John Raffles.

 


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