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Middlemarch

George Eliot

853 pages

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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.

Themes
Thought-ProvokingHeartfelt & EmotionalPhilosophy & Big IdeasMelancholic & NostalgicSlow BurnUnfulfilled potentialSocial hypocrisyMarriage as compromise
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