George Eliot\'s nuanced and moving novel is a masterly evocation of connected lives, changing fortunes and human frailties in a provincial community.
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..
George Eliot\'s nuanced and moving novel is a masterly evocation of connected lives, changing fortunes and human frailties in a provincial community