Significant themes include the status of women, the nature of marriage, idealism, self-interest, religion, hypocrisy, political reform, and education.Īlthough containing comical elements, Middlemarch is a work of realism that refers to many historical events: the 1832 Reform Act, the beginnings of the railways, the death of King George IV, and the succession of his brother, the Duke of Clarence (the future King William IV). The novel is set in the fictitious Midlands town of Middlemarch during 182932, and it comprises several distinct (though intersecting) stories and a large cast of characters. Production notes: This ebook of Middlemarch was published by Global Grey in 2020.Free eBook Middlemarch, A Study of Provincial Life is a novel by the English author George Eliot, first published in eight installments (volumes) during 187172. This book has 685 pages in the PDF version, and was originally published 1871-1872. Part of the Encyclopaedia Britannica’s Great Books of the Western World set. № 8 in the 20 Classics You Must Read Before You Die list. It has multiple plots with a large cast of characters, and in addition to its distinct though interlocking narratives, it pursues a number of underlying themes, including the status of women, the nature of marriage, idealism and self-interest, religion and hypocrisy, political reform, and education.

Subtitled 'A Study of Provincial Life', Middlemarch is set in the fictitious Midlands town of Middlemarch, thought to be based on Coventry, during the period 1830–32.

Middlemarch is a book by Mary Anne Evans (using the name George Eliot), first published in 1872.

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