- Young women, Married people, City and town life, Fiction
Eliot’s epic of 19th century provincial social life, set in a fictitious Midlands town in the years 1830-32, has several interlocking storylines blended effortlessly together to form a fully coherent narrative. Its main themes are the status of women, social expectations and hypocrisy, religion, political reform and education. It has often been called the greatest novel in the English language.
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Prestige, classical in form, meticulous and earnest.
- unpretentiousprestige
- classical in formformally daring
- rawmeticulous
- earnestironic
- contemplativerelentless
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About the book
- Author
- George Eliot
- First published
- December 19, 1999
- Pages
- 793
- Publisher
- houghton mifflin company, Prószyński i S-ka, William Blackwood and sons
- Editions
- 330
- Language
- und, Polish, Spanish, Russian
- ISBN
- 9781400102167
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“Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress.”
George Eliot, was an English novelist and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She is the author of seven novels, including The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), Middlemarch (1871–72), and Daniel Deronda (1876), most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. ([Source][1].) [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Eliot
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