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Middlemarch
George Eliot · 1871 · Romance, Drama & Literary
In a provincial English town on the eve of reform, Dorothea Brooke seeks a life of moral purpose while the gifted doctor Tertius Lydgate dreams of transforming medicine. Their ambitions, marriages, debts and mistakes become entangled with the lives of everyone around them in George Eliot's great study of sympathy and consequence.
Inside this edition
Every LitLab edition is illustrated from the text itself — the world of the book mapped, its people drawn, its scenes staged. 15 plates are open to everyone in this book; here are 8 of them.
The geographic world of Middlemarch, from Tipton and Lowick to the new railway.
The Table of 1832The food of provincial England in 1832, from country-house dining to the practical table of a working farm.
The web of Middlemarch: places, institutions, objects and reforms.
The people whose lives form Middlemarch.
Dorothea Brooke, the woman seeking a great life.
Tertius Lydgate, the doctor who would reform medicine.
Dorothea Brooke studies plans for model cottages at Tipton Grange.
Dorothea and Sir James consider plans for model cottages.
This edition
- Title
- Middlemarch
- Author
- George Eliot (1819–1880)
- First published
- 1871
- Illustrated plates
- 29 original artworks · 15 open to everyone
- Chapters
- 88 · about 316,651 words
- Reading time
- 21 h 7 min
- Language
- EN
- Formats
- Read online · EPUB and PDF download with a subscription
- Publisher
- LitLab — The Illustrated Classics
- On LitLab since
- August 2026
- Rights
- Text in the public domain. Illustrations and edition © LitLab.
- Source text
- Project Gutenberg #145
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