Book description: Middlemarch is a complex tale of idealism, disillusion, profligacy, loyalty and frustrated love. This penetrating analysis of the life of an English provincial town is set during the time of social unrest prior to the first Reform Bill of 1832. It is told through the lives of Dorothea Brooke and Dr Tertius Lygate and includes a host of other paradigm characters who illuminate the condition of English life in the mid-nineteenth century.
Henry James described Middlemarch as a 'treasure-house of detail' while Virginia Woolf famously endorsed George Eliot's masterpiece as 'one of the few English novels written for grown-up people'.
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What I thought of the book:
**
It took me months to read this! It's such a long book and there's so many different characters to try and follow. I just found it difficult to get into it and really relate with any of the people because it was jumping about so much instead of staying with just one person for long. That being said it was interesting to read about all the different views from the different types of people all living in close proximity with each other.
Book read 18th January 2013.
Book read 18th January 2013.
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