Middlemarch is a complex tale of idealism, disillusion, profligacy, loyalty and frustrated love.
Henry James described Middlemarch as a \'treasurehouse of detail\' while Vi.
This penetrating analysis of the life of an English provincial town during the time of social unrest prior to the Reform Bill of 1832 is told through the lives of Dorothea Brooke and Dr Tertius Lydgate and includes a host of other paradigm characters who illuminate the condition of English life in the mid-nineteenth century.
Middlemarch is a complex tale of idealism, disillusion, profligacy, loyalty and frustrated love