Middlemarch
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*Middlemarch* is widely regarded as George Eliot's masterpiece, elevating the English novel from popular entertainment into a highly intellectual art form Set in the fictitious English Midlands town of Middlemarch around 1829–1832, it examines every social class—gentry, clergy, manufacturers, professionals, farmers, and laborers Its interwoven plots center on the thwarted idealism of Dorothea Brooke and young physician Tertius Lydgate, both of whom enter disastrous marriages Published in eight bimonthly parts/books (December 1871 to December 1872) plus a Prelude and Finale by William Blackwood and Sons
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Serialized in 8 parts (December 1871 – December 1872); published in 4 volumes in 1872
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George Eliot (pen name of Mary Ann Evans, 1819–1880)
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