Middlemarch, A Study of Provincial Life George Eliot Author
by George Eliot
2021-04-11 23:01:30
Middlemarch, A Study of Provincial Life George Eliot Author
by George Eliot
2021-04-11 23:01:30
Middlemarch is a highly unusual novel. Although it is primarily a Victorian novel, it has many characteristics typical to modern novels. Middlemarch is considered by many scholars to be one of the most important novels of the Victorian era. It was wr...
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Middlemarch is a highly unusual novel. Although it is primarily a Victorian novel, it has many characteristics typical to modern novels. Middlemarch is considered by many scholars to be one of the most important novels of the Victorian era. It was written by George Eliot (pen name of Mary Anne Evans) and was first published in 1871 to 1872; Middlemarch, A Study of Provincial Life is a novel by English author George Eliot, first published in eight instalments. It is set in the 1830s in Middlemarch, a fictional provincial town in England, based on Coventry. Significant themes include the status of women, the nature of marriage, idealism, self-interest, religion, hypocrisy, political reform, and education.All 8 installments (books) are included in this publication.Norton (of the Norton Anthologies) asked 125 of the greatest living writers to select their top 10, and then (using statistics) produced a final list of the ten greatest books ever written. Middlemarch by George Eliot is in the top 10!
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