This Broadview edition includes a critical introduction and a rich selection of contextual materials, including contemporary reviews of the novel, other writings by George Eliot (essays, reviews, and criticism), and historical documents pertaining to medical reform, religious freedom, and the advent of the railroads.
Choose from Same Day Delivery, Drive Up or Order Pickup. Middlemarch is subtitled A Study of Provincial Life, and indeed it captures the goings on of a fairly large cast of characters over the period of a couple of years in an unremarkable English town in the 1830s. Free use and distribution is encouraged It is available as a series of mp3 files, one file per chapter. Please read the License before distributing this eBook. A female Bildungsroman and a study of character and society in the realistic mode pioneered by Balzac, Middlemarchis also an historical novel that offers a panorama of English society in an era of social reform and political agitation. Read reviews and buy Quarry for Middlemarch - by George Eliot (Hardcover) at Target. Middlemarch By George Eliot This is a copyrighted audio performance of Project Gutenbergs public domain book, 'Middlemarch', by George Eliot. George Eliot's Middlemarch(1871-72) is one of the classic novels of English literature and was admired by Virginia Woolf as "one of the few English novels written for grown-up people." The complex main plot and many subplots revolve around Dorothea Brooke, an ardent young woman, and her relationship to three men: Casaubon, a clergyman and scholar twice her age Lydgate, an ambitious young doctor who shares Dorothea's enthusiasm for reform but whose flaws compromise his ambitions and Will Ladislaw, a young man of mysterious origins, romantic temperament, and artistic inclinations.
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