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Book Title: George Eliot - Middlemarch

Author: George Eliot

Added: March 01, 2008

Synopsis:

This book follows the lives of several residents in the fictional town of Middlemarch. It is set in Victorian England and shows the strikingly different lives between the classes, while all intertwined because of being resident in Middlemarch and it's surrounding areas. We are at first introduced to the rich and beautiful Dorothea who promises to marry a much older intellectual gentleman by the name of Casaubon, whom Dorothea believes will help her improve her mind while she helps him with writing his books.

We are then introduced to the Vincy's, the patriarch of the family is the town Mayor, his daughter Rosamund is considered very beautiful, and his son Fred is goal-less and debt-ridden, believing himself to be the benefactor of his Uncle's estate he is just biding his time waiting for the old man to die so he can come into his fortune. Rosamund Vincy sets her sights on the new Doctor in the town determined to marry an outsider to Middlemarch and escape to greener pastures. Things don't work out the way any of the Middlemarchers plan and hope.

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