About the Book: Middlemarch
'We must lay upon her grave whatever we have it in our power to bestow of
laurel and rose, Virginia Woolf wrote of George Eliot in 1919, appraising the
authors work.
Eliots magnum opus deals with issues of morality, love, idealism and political
upsurge within the realistic setting of a nineteenth-century English town. It is
a slow, gripping burn which grasps the readers attention through its mundanity.
Broken marriages, political agendas, failures and changing fortunes within a
closely knit community are what this text offers, while simultaneously relating
to a world of reachable possibilities.
Having stood the test of time,