Peopling its landscape are Dorothea Brooke, a young idealist whose search for intellectual fulfilment leads her into a disastrous marriage to the pedantic scholar Casaubon Dr Lydgate, whose pioneering medical methods, combined with an imprudent marriage to the spendthrift beauty Rosamond, threaten to undermine his career and the religious hypocrite Bulstrode, hiding scandalous crimes from his past. Middlemarch by George Eliot: 9780451531964 : Books One of the best-loved works of the nineteenth century, Middlemarch explores the complex social relationships in a town that moves and breathes with a. George Eliot's nuanced and moving novel is a masterly evocation of connected lives, changing fortunes and human frailties in a provincial community. 'One of the few English novels written for grown-up people' Virginia Woolf One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World'
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