Journal Entry 1 by JPix from Southampton, Hampshire United Kingdom on Sunday, October 17, 2010

One of many books kindly given to me by a friend who was having a clear out.

"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 and Dr Tertius Lydgate and includes a host of other paradigm characters who illuminate the condition of English life in the mid-nineteenth century.