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“Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.”
Marcel Proust

Middlemarch

By George Eliot

Often named as one of the best English novels of all time, George Eliot’s masterpiece, , is set in a fictitious Midlands town from 1829 to 1832. Dorothea is a young idealist whose search for intellectual fulfilment leads her into a disastrous marriage to the pedantic scholar Casaubon.  is a masterly evocation of diverse lives and changing fortunes in a provincial community.

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