Few novelists have ever attempted so broad a canvas as george Eliot in her masterpiese,Middlemarch.Portraying every level of social life in a provincial midlands town called Middlemarch,she interweaves several intensely dramatic stories of love and death,betrayal and reconciliation,into one of the finest pictures of nineteenth-century England ever credated.Its acute psychological penetration makes it also and exceptionally modern work,particularly in the romantic idealism of Dorothea Brooke,who often resembles George Eliot hersefl,and in the disastrous marriage and thwarted career of the young reformist doctor,Lyagate.Virginial Woolf called it"one of the few English novels written for grown-up people"-and it is truly great literature that ranks among the best novels in the world.
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Mary Ann Evans was born on November 22,1819,at Chilvers Coton,Warwickshire,England,the last child of an estater agent.During her Girlhood and early youth she was piously Evangelical,but her friendship with religious freethinkers in Coventry in the early 1840s reinforced her own growing doubts and led to a break with orthodox religion.She then spent two years translating D.F.Strauss's The Life of Jesus Critically Examined(1846),a work that had a profound effect on English rationalism. |
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