One of the most accomplished and prominent novels of the Victorian era, <i>Middlemarch</i> is an unsurpassed portrait of nineteenth-century English provincial life. Dorothea Brooke is a young woman of fervent ideals who yearns to effect social change yet faces resistance from the society she inhabits. In this epic in a small landscape, Eliot's large cast of precisely delineated characters and the rich tapestry of their stories result in a wise, compassionate, and astute vision of human nature. As Virginia Woolf declared, George Eliot "was one of the first English novelists to discover that men and women think as well as feel, and the discovery was of great artistic moment."<br><br><b>Author:</b> George Eliot<br><b>Publisher:</b> Modern Library<br><b>Published:</b> 10/10/2000<br><b>Pages:</b> 848<br><b>Binding Type:</b> Paperback<br><b>Weight:</b> 1.34lbs<br><b>Size:</b> 8.33h x 4.86w x 1.47d<br><b>ISBN:</b> 9780679783312<br><br><b>Accelerated Reader:</b><br><b>Reading Level:</b> 10.4<br><b>Point Value:</b> 64<br><b>Interest Level:</b> Upper Grade<br><b>Quiz #/Name: </b>52114 / Middlemarch<br><br><p><b>About the Author</b><br>Mary Ann Evans was born on November 22, 1819, at Chilvers Coton, Warwickshire, England, the last child of an estate agent. During her girlhood, she went through a phase of evangelical piety, but her strong interest in philosophy and her friendship with religious freethinkers led to a break with orthodox religion. When one of these friends married in 1843