Middlemarch presents a vast panorama of life in a
provincial Midlands town. At the story’s center stands the
intellectual and idealistic Dorothea Brooke. But the very
qualities that set Dorothea apart from the materialistic,
mean-spirited society around her also lead her into a disastrous
marriage with a man she mistakes for her soul mate. In a
parallel story, young doctor Tertius Lydgate, who is equally
idealistic, falls in love with the pretty but superficial
Rosamund Vincy, whom he marries to his ruin.
Eliot’s characters are drawn from every social class, forming an
extraordinarily rich and precisely detailed portrait of English
provincial life in the 1830s. Dorothea’s and Lydgate’s struggles
to retain their integrity in the midst of temptation and tragedy
remind us of a world very much like our own.
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