Vast and crowded, rich in irony and suspense, Middlemarch is richer still in character, with two of the era's most enduring characters, Dorothea Brooke, trapped in a loveless marriage, and Lydgate, an ambitious young doctor.
Language: English
Published in: 1871
Word count: 316,453 words (≈ about 21 hours)
Source: Gutenberg
Copyright: Public Domain
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