MiddleMarch
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Elizabeth Gaskell
Middlemarch is a portrait of a town, and of the small decisions that shape a life. Dorothea Brooke marries for a great mind and finds a shrunken soul. Dr. Lydgate arrives with scientific ambition and is undone by debt and gossip. Fred Vincy gambles with his future. Bulstrode buries a past that won't stay buried.
2 Books in MiddleMarch
Book 1
**She wanted a cause worth kneeling for. She found a man who wanted a servant.** Dorothea Brooke is nineteen and certain her life must mean something larger than needlepoint and marriage prospects. When the aging …
Book 2
**A honeymoon in Rome. A marriage already turning to stone.** Dorothea's wedding trip should be a revelation. Instead she spends hours alone while Casaubon vanishes into his research. Here she meets Will Ladislaw, his young …