Her novels, largely set in provincial England, are well known for their realism and psychological insight. George Eliot was one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. Within Middlemarch, we find Eliot's ability to expand the audience's compassion and imagination. Full of irony and suspense and even richer in character it shows how individual lives are shaped by and shape the community. Middlemarch explores nearly all matters of concern to modern life, portraying an entire community and every class within it. Peopling its landscape are Dorothea Brooke, a young idealist whose search for intellectual fulfillment leads her into a disastrous marriage to the pedantic scholar Casaubon the charming but tactless Dr Lydgate, whose marriage to the spendthrift beauty Rosamund and pioneering medical methods threaten to undermine his career and the religious hypocrite Bulstrode, hiding scandalous crimes from his past.Īs their stories interweave, George Eliot creates a richly nuanced and moving drama, hailed by Virginia Woolf as 'one of the few English novels written for adult people'. George Eliot's most ambitious novel is a masterly evocation of diverse lives and changing fortunes in a provincial community.
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