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Middlemarch
For everyone who thought they'd change the world and ended up just being a good person: Eliot says that counts. 🕯️
Who it's for
Eliot follows several people whose big hopes are narrowed by marriage, money and circumstance, and she refuses to mock them or let them off.
Feelings it meets
What it is
George Eliot's novel, subtitled 'A Study of Provincial Life', was published in eight instalments from December 1871 to December 1872. It is set in the fictional Midlands town of Middlemarch between 1829 and 1832 and weaves together several lives. Idealistic Dorothea Brooke marries the elderly scholar Edward Casaubon and finds the marriage cold.
Where to find it
Public domain in the US; free on Project Gutenberg and Standard Ebooks, with free LibriVox audiobooks. Also widely in print (Penguin Classics, Oxford World's Classics and others), in libraries (Libby/.
Before you start
Heads up: A man's death deliberately hastened.
Age: Ages 14+
Tiny grass, your steps are small, but you possess the earth under your tread.Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds, no. 65
