Middlemarch

George Eliot's masterpiece — widely regarded as one of the greatest novels ever written in English. In the fictional town of Middlemarch, idealistic Dorothea Brooke marries the aging scholar Edward Casaubon, hoping to devote her life to a great purpose — only to find herself trapped in a loveless, stifling union. Meanwhile, the ambitious young doctor Tertius Lydgate arrives with grand plans for m...