Middlemarch (Annotated)

Middlemarch is a capacious realist novel of provincial English life in the years around the 1832 Reform Bill, weaving together courtship, marriage, vocation, money, medicine, religion, and political change. Through Dorothea Brooke, Tertius Lydgate, Rosamond Vincy, and a richly peopled town, George Eliot studies the collision between ideal aspiration and social constraint. Its style is intellectual...