George Eliot
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As Maggie Tulliver approaches maturity she enters into conflict with family and community over her desire to be more than just average. Eliot's exploration of Maggie's dilemma makes this novel as relevant today as it was in the 19th century. This edition contains a new chronology, and updated further reading.
3) Middlemarch
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Period drama set in the 19th Century and based on the George Eliot novel which follows the lives and loves of a group of people living in a small town, in the 1830s. Filmed in Stamford, Lincolnshire.
4) Middlemarch
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Dorothea Brooke is a beautiful and idealistic young woman set on filling her life with good deeds. She pursues the pompous Edward Casuabon, convinced that he embodies these principles, and becomes trapped in an unhappy marriage. Then there is Tertius Lydgate, an anguished progressive whose determination to bring modern medicine to the provinces is muddied by unrequited love. They, and a multitude of other brilliantly drawn characters, reside in the...