Middlemarch: Classic Book Guide and Free Edition
Middlemarch: author and translator credits, catalogue synopsis, subjects and links to the Gutenberg reading formats.
Middlemarch is catalogued by Project Gutenberg with author credits for Eliot, George (1819–1880).
Catalogue synopsis
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"Middlemarch" by George Eliot is a novel published in 1871-1872. Set in a fictional English Midlands town from 1829 to 1832, it weaves together multiple intersecting stories exploring the status of women, marriage, idealism, and political reform. The narrative follows Dorothea Brooke's search for purpose, Dr. Lydgate's medical ambitions, and several other inhabitants navigating love, debt, scandal, and social change against the backdrop of the approaching Reform Act of 1832.
Book and edition facts
- Title: Middlemarch
- Author credits: Eliot, George (1819–1880)
- Catalogue language: English
Catalogue subjects
- Bildungsromans
- City and town life -- Fiction
- Didactic fiction
- Domestic fiction
- England -- Fiction
- Love stories
- Married people -- Fiction
- Young women -- Fiction
Gutenberg collections
- Best Books Ever Listings
- Category: British Literature
- Category: Classics of Literature
- Category: Novels
- Historical Fiction
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