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Writing at the very moment when the foundations of Western thought were being challenged and undermined, George Eliot fashions in Middlemarch (1871-2) the quintessential Victorian novel, a concept of life and society free from the dogma of the past yet able to confront the scepticism that was taking over the age. In a panoramic sweep of English life during thr years leading up to the First Reform Bill of 1832, Eliot explores nearly every subject of concern to modern life: art, religion, science, politics, self, society, human relationships. Among her characters are some of the most remarkable portraits in English literature: Dorothea Brooke, the heroine, idealistic but näive; Rosamond Vincy, beautiful and egoistic: Edward Casaubon, the dry-as-dust scholar: Tertius Lydgate, the brilliant but morally-flawed physician: the passionate artist Will Ladislaw: and Fred Vincey and Mary Garth, childhood sweethearts whose charming courtship is one of the many humorous elements in the novel

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Classic fiction (pre c 1945)

• Full title: Middlemarch
• Author: George Eliot
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 864
• EAN: 9780199536757
• ISBN: 0199536759
• ID: 04035265
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Weight: 588 g
• Dimensions: 196 × 129 × 38 mm
• Date of publishing: 10. July 2008

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