PLAYAWAY. A brilliant portrait of 19th-century English provincial life, Middlemarch is a multilayered work centering around two expertly-constructed characters: Dorothea Brooke, an ardent, intelligent, idealistic young woman who traps herself into a loveless marriage; and Tertius Lydgate, a well-connected and ambitious young doctor who comes to Middlemarch fired with the desire to spread the new science of medicine. Epic in scope of vision and unsurpassed in its depiction of human nature, Middlemarch is one of the greatest worksi n all of world literature.
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