# Middlemarch

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- Book: [Middlemarch](https://www.bookquiver.com/george-eliot/middlemarch) ([Middlemarch.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/george-eliot/middlemarch.md))
- Authors: [George Eliot](https://www.bookquiver.com/george-eliot)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4143-954-9
- Pages: 880
- Published: 2003-01-30
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

George Eliot's most ambitious novel is a masterly evocation of diverse lives and changing fortunes in a provincial community. Peopling its landscape are Dorothea Brooke, a young idealist whose search for intellectual fulfillment leads her into a disastrous marriage to the pedantic scholar Casaubon; the charming but tactless Dr Lydgate, whose marriage to the spendthrift beauty Rosamund and pioneering medical methods threaten to undermine his career; and the religious hypocrite Bulstrode, hiding scandalous crimes from his past. As their stories interweave, George Eliot creates a richly nuanced and moving drama, hailed by Virginia Woolf as 'one of the few English novels written for adult people'.