Middlemarch

"e;The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts."e;Set in a fictional Midlands town during the social upheaval of the 1832 Reform Act, Middlemarch is a sprawling, deeply moving tapestry of human life. It follows the parallel lives of Dorothea Brooke, an idealistic woman seeking a "e;grand life"e; of purpose, and Tertius Lydgate, a brilliant young doctor determined to revolu...