Virginia Woolf called Middlemarch "one of the few English novels written for grown-up people." Mary Ann Evans's panoramic novel of provincial English life examines two parallel stories of idealistic marriage failure β Dorothea Brooke's with Casaubon and Lydgate's with Rosamond β with a compassion, intelligence, and complexity that makes it, by wide critical consensus, the greatest novel in the English language.

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