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Middlemarch

Middlemarch

by Eliot, George, 1819-1880

BookID: 145

Language:English

Reading Level:Reading ease score: 68.5 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read.

Copyright Status:Public domain in the USA.

Didactic fictionCity and town life -- FictionEngland -- FictionYoung women -- Fiction

Description

"Middlemarch" by George Eliot is a novel published in 1871-1872. Set in a fictional English Midlands town from 1829 to 1832, it weaves together multiple intersecting stories exploring the status of women, marriage, idealism, and political reform. The narrative follows Dorothea Brooke's search for purpose, Dr. Lydgate's medical ambitions, and several other inhabitants navigating love, debt, scandal, and social change against the backdrop of the approaching Reform Act of 1832. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

Class:PR: Language and Literatures: English literature

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