Middlemarch

“And certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder that we are so fond of it.” – From MiddlemarchAccording to Virginia Woolf, Middlemarch is “one of the few English novels for grown-up people.”Middlemarch, probably George Eliot’s most famous and comprehensive novel, intended as a study of provincial British life, was first published in 1871 and 1872, in eight parts, coming out every two months and has a wonderfully complex social world where it represents the life of ordinary people.Combining themes like the imperfection of marriage, the difficulty and harshness of social life and expectations, self-determination, George Eliot weaves together the disparate lives of a vast number of characters through which she succeeded completing this masterpiece of hers.