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Victorian · Novel

Middlemarch

by George Eliot. Lives in a provincial town intertwine in a profound study of idealism, compromise, vocation, sympathy, and social consequence.

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Date
1871–1872
Origin
England
Era
Victorian
Genre
Novel
Canon tier
Essential core
Difficulty
Moderate
Length
Very long
Collection
The Western Canon

Subjects and themes

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Lives in a provincial town intertwine in a profound study of idealism, compromise, vocation, sympathy, and social consequence.

This work is included on the basis of bloom. Its cataloged influence level is 5 out of 5.

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