Published by Penguin / Everyman's Library, first published in 1871-72, 364 pages. Welcome to Middlemarch: an English town in the Midlands, during the late 1800s, home to dreamers, idealists, people trying to remake themselves, and people on the make. They represent a cross-section of society: landowners, traders, estate managers, artists, clerics and workers. The people …

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