Book description
This compact edition is abridged. Consider it Middlemarch in half the
time! Nineteen year old Dorothea Brooke is determined to lead a
worthwhile life and to help others. When she meets the middle-aged
scholar, Mr Casaubon, she believes marriage to him will provide her with
the useful role for which she longs. Meanwhile in Middlemarch Dr
Lydgate, bent on medical reform, is distracted into romance with the
alluring but superficial Rosamond Vincy. Both Dorothea and Lydgate,
disillusioned with their marriages, find their idealism frustrated: and
for Dorothea, her husband's enigmatic but fascinating nephew, Will, is
an added complication. George Eliot is the authror of many titles,
including THE MILL ON THE FLOSS.
