Middlemarch (Annotated)

George Eliot's Middlemarch is a panoramic study of provincial English life in the years surrounding the Reform Bill of 1832, weaving together the aspirations of Dorothea Brooke, Tertius Lydgate, Rosamond Vincy, and a richly realized social world. Written in a supple, ironic, and philosophically probing realist style, the novel enlarges domestic fiction into a profound investigation of moral choice...