Middlemarch
Ranked #14 in Victorian, Ranked #44 in English Writer — see more rankings.
Taking place in the years leading up to the First Reform Bill of 1832, Middlemarch explores nearly every subject of concern to modern life: art, religion, science, politics, self, society, human relationships. Among her characters are some of the most remarkable portraits in English literature: Dorothea Brooke, the heroine, idealistic but naive; Rosamond Vincy, beautiful and egoistic: Edward Casaubon, the dry-as-dust scholar: Tertius Lydgate, the brilliant but morally-flawed physician: the passionate artist Will Ladislaw: and Fred Vincey and Mary Garth, childhood sweethearts whose... more
Rankings by Category
Middlemarch is ranked in the following categories:
- #75 in Bucket List
- #60 in GRE
- #65 in GRE Prep
- #65 in Long
- #56 in Penguin Classics
- #76 in Project Gutenberg
- #85 in Public Domain
- #81 in Spring
- #74 in UK
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