Middlemarch

George Eliot

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The story

Dorothea wants a meaningful life and marries the wrong man; a doctor wants to reform medicine and the town will not let him. The century's greatest English novel.

About the author

Mary Ann Evans, who signed as George Eliot (1819–1880), wrote English provincial life with unmatched moral intelligence.

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