Middlemarch

Also known as Middlemarch, A Study of Provincial Life

Middlemarch, A Study of Provincial Life is a novel by English author George Eliot. It appeared in eight installments (volumes) in 1871 and 1872. Set in Middlemarch, a fictional English Midlands town, from 1829 to 1832, it follows distinct, intersecting stories with many characters. Issues include the status of women, the nature of marriage, idealism, self-interest, religion, hypocrisy, political reform, and education. Leavened with comic elements, Middlemarch approaches significant historical events in a realist mode: the Reform Act 1832, early railways, and the accession of King William IV. I

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Author: George Eliot
First published: 1800
Editions: 328
Subjects: Young women, Married people, City and town life, Fiction, Social life and customs, Married women, England, Readers

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Book.title_working: Miss Brooke
Book.name: Middlemarch, A Study of Provincial Life
Book.image: Middlemarch 1.jpg
Book.caption: Title page of the first edition, 1871–1872
Book.author: George Eliot
Book.country: United Kingdom
Book.language: English
Book.dewey: 823.8
Book.genre: Novel
Book.publisher: William Blackwood and Sons
Book.published: 1871–1872
Book.media_type: Print
Book.orig_lang_code: en
Book.wikisource: Middlemarch
Book.set_in: English Midlands and briefly Rome, September 1829 – May 1832
Book.preceded_by: Felix Holt, the Radical
Book.followed_by: Daniel Deronda

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Instance of: literary work
Author: George Eliot
Country of origin: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Followed by: Daniel Deronda
Follows: Felix Holt, the Radical
Image: Middlemarch 1.jpg

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publication date: 1871-00-00
title: Middlemarch
language of work or name: English language
copyright status: public domain
first line: Who that cares much to know the history of man, and how the mysterious mixture behaves under the varying experiments of Time, has not dwelt, at least briefly, on the life of Saint Theresa, has not smiled with some gentleness at the thought of the little girl walking forth one morning hand-in-hand with her still smaller brother, to go and seek martyrdom in the country of the Moors?
last line: But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.
form of creative work: novel
subtitle: A Study of Provincial Life
Commons category: Middlemarch
described by source: New International Encyclopedia

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Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life (Brasil: Middlemarch: um estudo da vida provinciana / Portugal: A vida era assim em Middlemarch), é um romance de George Eliot, pseudônimo de Mary Anne Evans, posteriormente Marian Evans. É seu sétimo romance, começado em 1869, e posto de lado durante o adoecimento terminal de Thorton Lewes, o filho de seu companheiro George Henry Lewes. Durante o ano seguinte Eliot retomou o trabalho, fundindo várias histórias em um todo coeso, e durante os anos de 1871 e 1872, o romance foi publicado em série. A primeira edição em um volume foi publicado em 1874, e atraiu grandes vendas. Com subtítulo de "Um estudo da vida provinciana", o romance se passa numa cidade fictícia das Midlands, Middlemarch, no período de 1830 a 1832 Tem muitas tramas com grande número de personagens, e, apesar de suas distintas (porém interligadas) narrativas, busca um número de temas subliminares, incluindo o status das mulheres, a natureza do casamento, o idealismo e o interesse pessoal, religião e hipocrisia, reforma política e educação. O andamento é suave, e o tom levemente didático (com uma voz autoral que ocasionalmente irrompe da narração), e o quadro é bastante amplo. Virginia Woolf disse deste livro que é "um dos poucos romances ingleses escritos para gente grande".

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