Middlemarch (Abridged)

Middlemarch was first published in 1871 and 1872, as a serial novel in eight parts. This was Eliot's most comprehensive and sweeping novel to date, and was intended as a study of provincial British life. Described by Virginia Woolf as "one of the few English novels written for grown-up people", Middlemarch follows the novel's central characters Dorothea and Lydgate as they both respectively quest ...