Dorothea Brooke is a young idealist whose search for intellectual fulfillment leads her into a disastrous marriage to the pedantic scholar Casaubon; the tactless Dr Lydgate's marriage to the spendthrift beauty Rosamund & pioneering medical methods threaten to undermine his career; &, Bulstrode hides scandalous crimes from his past. ...

This edition of " Middlemarch" is based on George Eliot's 1874 edition, the last corrected by the author. Explanatory notes help readers understand both the world of Middlemarch & the manner of Eliot's art. The history of critical response to Middlemarch is represented also. ...

A BBC dramatisation of George Eliot's classic novel about the lives & loves of a group of people living on the cusp of the Industrial Revolution in a small town named Middlemarch. These include young Doctor Lydgate (Douglas Hodge), who arrives at Middlemarch hospital full of idealism & determined to do good works; Dorothea Brooke (Juliet Aubrey), who becomes attracted to the scholarly Edward Casaubon (Patrick Malahide) & then finds herself trapped in an ill-fated marriage; & Will Ladislaw (Rufus Sewell), a young lad who awakens Dorothea's repressed passion & thereby changes the course of her life. ...

One of the great works of 19th-century England as well as one of the masterpieces of English fiction, this novel is set in the Midlands, 1830-32, in the fictitious town of Middlemarch. It is concerned with the blighted marriage of a young idealistic woman, but also presents a vivid portrait of England during the Georgian era. ...

Features such characters as: Dorothea Brooke, a young idealist whose search for intellectual fulfillment leads her into a disastrous marriage to the pedantic scholar Casaubon; the charming but tactless Dr Lydgate, whose marriage to the spendthrift beauty Rosamund & pioneering medical methods threaten to undermine his career; &, more. ...