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The novel’s main characters include: Dorothea Brooke, a religiously-inclined and very intelligent young woman who marries a much older man believing that she can assist him in his scholarly studies Dr. Yet it also includes several touches of humor. The novel is remarkable for its realistic treatment of situation, character and relationships and also demonstrates its author’s accurate knowledge of political issues, medicine, politics, and rural economy. Published in eight installments between 18, Middlemarch tells the intertwined stories of a variety of people living in the vicinity of the (fictional) midlands town of Middlemarch during the early 1830s, the time of the great Reform Act. Her long novel Middlemarch, subtitled A Study of Provincial Life, is generally considered to be her finest work.

€œ George Eliot” was the pen-name of Mary Ann Evans, one of the greatest of English novelists of the Victorian era. Part of the Encyclopædia Britannica’s Great Books of the Western World „– 1 in the BBC’s 100 Greatest British Novels (2015) „– 21 in the Guardian’s Best 100 Novels in English (2015) Standard Ebooksģ21,434 words (19 hours 29 minutes) with a reading ease of 68.3 (average difficulty) Middlemarch, by George Eliot - Free ebook download - Standard Ebooks: Free and liberated ebooks, carefully produced for the true book lover.