# 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: 978-01-4310-772-9
- Pages: 800
- Published: 2015-10-29
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Considered one the masterpieces of realist fiction, George Eliot's novel, Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life , explores a fictional nineteenth-century Midlands town in the midst of modern changes. The quiet drama of ordinary lives and flawed choices are played out in the complexly portrayed central characters of the novel-the idealistic Dorothea Brooke; the ambitious Dr. Lydgate; the spendthrift Fred Vincy; and the steadfast Mary Garth. The appearance of two outsiders further disrupts the town's equilibrium-Will Ladislaw, the spirited nephew of Dorothea's husband, the Rev. Edward Casaubon, and the sinister John Raffles, who threatens to expose the hidden past of one of the town's elite.