613 pages
English language
Published Oct. 29, 1956 by Houghton Mifflin.
Middlemarch.
Edited with an introd. and notes by Gordon S. Haight. Riverside editions, B6
by George Eliot
3 stars
(1 review)
Eliot’s epic of 19th century provincial social life, set in a fictitious Midlands town in the years 1830-32, has several interlocking storylines blended effortlessly together to form a fully coherent narrative. Its main themes are the status of women, social expectations and hypocrisy, religion, political reform and education. It has often been called the greatest novel in the English language.
