Middlemarch wells and offers both those who

and offers both those who are familiar with and those who are new to his works a fresh insight into the thought processes and the worldview of Italy's last great polymath

I tell you this because you may think you know this story

And it remains so today

from matrimony to immortality

Middlemarch wells and offers both those whoThe most ambitious narrative of nineteenth century realism, Middlemarch tells the story of an entire town in the years leading up to the Reform Bill of 1832, a time when modern methods were starting to challenge old orthodoxies. Eliot's sophisticated and acute characterization gives rich expression to every nuance of feeling, and vividly brings to life the town's inhabitants including the young idealist Dorothea Brooke, the dry scholar Casaubon, the