Middlemarch
George Eliot · 1819–1880
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A provincial town around 1830, seen through several marriages and ambitions that go wrong in quiet ways. George Eliot moves between minds with wisdom and without contempt, and keeps asking how much a good life can achieve inside its circumstances. Its sentences can be long, but few novels are so fair to everyone in them.