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Middlemarch

George Eliot

  • 793 pages · about 13 hours
  • First published 1871
  • 330 editions
  • Free to read
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1 About this book

Eliot’s epic of 19th century provincial social life, set in a fictitious Midlands town in the years 1830-32, has several interlocking storylines blended effortlessly together to form a fully coherent narrative. Its main themes are the status of women, social expectations and hypocrisy, religion, political reform and education. It has often been called the greatest novel in the English language.

Good for readers who want: a coming-of-age story, a classic, and a long read.

  • Coming of age
  • Medicine
  • Bildungsromans
  • Domestic fiction
  • Family life
  • Classics
  • History, 19th Century
  • Young women

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3 About George Eliot

1819–1880

Mary Ann Evans (22 November 1819 – 22 December 1880; alternatively Mary Anne or Marian), known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She wrote seven novels: Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), Romola (1862–1863), Felix Holt, the Radical (1866), Middlemarch (1871–1872) and Daniel Deronda (1876).

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