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Middlemarch by George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) (1872)
Today we immerse ourselves in the sprawling, richly detailed world of George Eliot's (Mary Ann Evans) 1872 masterpiece, Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life. Set in a fictional English town just before the Great Reform Act of 1832, the novel weaves together the lives of multiple characters, exploring the social, political, and personal dynamics of the era. The central thread follows the intelligent and idealistic Dorothea Brooke, whose high aspirations clash painfully with the limited opportunities afforded to women and who makes a disastrous marriage to the pedantic, elderly scholar…
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