MIDDLEMARCH

'Middlemarch' is a complex tale of idealism, disillusion, profligacy, loyalty and frustrated love. This penetrating analysis of the life of an English provincial town during the time of social unrest prior to the Reform Bill of 1832 is told through the lives of Dorothea Brooke an energetic, intelligent, wealthy young woman and Dr Tertius Lydgate an idealistic, talented, yet naïve young doctor and includes a host of other paradigm characters who illuminate the condition of English life in the mid-19th century. 736pp. Paperback.