Middlemarch (Magill Book Reviews)
At a glance:
- Author: George Eliot
- First Published: 1871
- Type of Work: Victorian Novel
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction, Social realism
- Subjects: Philosophy or philosophers, Tradition, Power, personal or social, Love or romance, Nineteenth century, Marriage, Prejudices or antipathies, Villages, Doctors, Manners or customs, Social life, England or English people, Small-town life, Ambition, Idealism, Money, Orphans or orphanages, Gossip, Naivete, Debtors or creditors
- Locales: England
The principal plot line in this novel--there are at least four--recounts the sometimes misdirected efforts of Dorothea Brooke to give meaning to her life by dedicating it to some worthy and significant cause. Mistakenly thinking that he is a “guide who would take her along the grandest path,” Dorothea marries Mr. Casaubon, a narrow and mean-spirited pedant. She is saved from the worst consequences of this marriage by Mr. Casaubon’s timely death and eventually finds happiness in marrying Mr. Casaubon’s nephew Will Ladislaw. However, Dorothea is able to exert her moral impulses...
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