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One of the most famous novels of the Victorian age and a fabulously juicy read to this day, Middlemarch is George Eliot's masterpiece. At the heart of the story are sisters Dorothea and Cecilia Brooke, who live in genteel poverty in an English country village. Though their parents are gone and the two siblings must rely on each other, they could not be less alike. The lofty-minded Dorothea loves to pore over books, while her impetuous, emotional sister prefers a bit more glamour in life. As the two young women come of age, their temperaments bring them their shares of joy and sorrow. Dorothea, seeking a life of noble thoughts and service, falls (to her family's dismay) for the dry intellectual Edward Casaubon. As Dorothea finds that her lot leaves much to be desired, other villagers enter the scene—the beautiful Rosamond Vincy, her ne'er-do-well brother Fred—and bring with them their respective romantic entanglements. Not until the very end do we learn whether the cast of this nineteenth-century soap opera ever finds happiness, or if their all-too-human shortcomings sabotage their dearest dreams.
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To my dear Husband, George Henry Lewes, in this nineteenth year of our blessed union.
Who that cares much to know the history of man, and how the mysterious mixture behaves under the varying experiments of Time, has not dwelt, at least briefly, on the life of Saint Theresa, has not smiled with ...
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Yes, George Eliot is satirizing the revolution of the 1830s but the book is much more than that. ...