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Middlemarch
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Middlemarch

by George Eliot

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Recommended by 6 sources and appears in English, Classic, and Most Recommended Books.

Dorothea Brooke is a beautiful and idealistic young woman set on filling her life with good deeds. She pursues the pompous Edward Casaubon, conviced that he embodies these principles, and becomes trapped in an unhappy marriage. Then there is Tertius Lydgate, an anguished progressive whose determination to bring modern medicine to the provinces is m...

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Recommended by 6 sources and appears in English, Classic, and Most Recommended Books.

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