Her long novel Middlemarch, subtitled A Study of Provincial Life, is generally considered to be her finest work.  George Eliotâ was the pen-name of Mary Ann Evans, one of the greatest of English novelists of the Victorian era. Part of the Encyclopædia Britannicaâs Great Books of the Western World
 1 in the BBCâs 100 Greatest British Novels (2015)  21 in the Guardianâs Best 100 Novels in English (2015) Standard Ebooksģ21,434 words (19 hours 29 minutes) with a reading ease of 68.3 (average difficulty) The pace is leisurely, the tone is mildly didactic (with an authorial voice that occasionally bursts through the narrative), and the canvas is very broad.Middlemarch, by George Eliot - Free ebook download - Standard Ebooks: Free and liberated ebooks, carefully produced for the true book lover. It has multiple plots with a large cast of characters, and in addition to its distinct though interlocking narratives it pursues a number of underlying themes, including the status of women, the nature of marriage, idealism and self-interest, religion and hypocrisy, political reform, and education. Subtitled "A Study of Provincial Life," the novel is set in the fictitious Midlands town of Middlemarch during the period 1830–32. The first one-volume edition was published in 1874, and attracted large sales. During the following year Eliot resumed work, fusing together several stories into a coherent whole, and during 1871–72 the novel appeared in serial form. It is her seventh novel, begun in 1869 and then put aside during the final illness of Thornton Lewes, the son of her companion George Henry Lewes.
Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life is a novel by George Eliot, the pen name of Mary Anne Evans, later Marian Evans. Download cover art Download CD case insert Middlemarch (version 2)
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