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Middlemarch

George Eliot

Middlemarch

George Eliot

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"Middlemarch" by George Eliot is a novel published in 1871-1872. Set in a fictional English Midlands town from 1829 to 1832, it weaves together multiple intersecting stories exploring the status of women, marriage, idealism, and political reform. The narrative follows Dorothea Brooke's search for purpose, Dr. Lydgate's medical ambitions, and several other inhabitants navigating love, debt, scandal, and social change against the backdrop of the approaching Reform Act of 1832. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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  1. 1Middlemarch2,569 chars
  2. 2PRELUDE.2,991 chars
  3. 3BOOK I. MISS BROOKE.18,964 chars
  4. 4CHAPTER II.16,380 chars
  5. 5CHAPTER III.24,963 chars
  6. 6CHAPTER IV.15,576 chars
  7. 7CHAPTER V.19,637 chars
  8. 8CHAPTER VI.24,095 chars
  9. 9CHAPTER VII.9,133 chars
  10. 10CHAPTER VIII.11,485 chars
  11. 11CHAPTER IX.22,443 chars
  12. 12CHAPTER X.25,098 chars
  13. 13CHAPTER XI.20,230 chars
  14. 14CHAPTER XII.36,962 chars
  15. 15BOOK II. OLD AND YOUNG.20,712 chars
  16. 16CHAPTER XIV.18,861 chars
  17. 17CHAPTER XV.31,485 chars
  18. 18CHAPTER XVI.29,880 chars
  19. 19CHAPTER XVII.19,208 chars
  20. 20CHAPTER XVIII.25,855 chars
  21. 21CHAPTER XIX.8,631 chars
  22. 22CHAPTER XX.26,318 chars
  23. 23CHAPTER XXI.17,306 chars
  24. 24CHAPTER XXII.31,033 chars
  25. 25BOOK III. WAITING FOR DEATH.27,793 chars
  26. 26CHAPTER XXIV.25,336 chars
  27. 27CHAPTER XXV.14,128 chars
  28. 28CHAPTER XXVI.10,400 chars
  29. 29CHAPTER XXVII.19,713 chars
  30. 30CHAPTER XXVIII.10,899 chars
  31. 31CHAPTER XXIX.17,400 chars
  32. 32CHAPTER XXX.14,540 chars
  33. 33CHAPTER XXXI.21,560 chars
  34. 34CHAPTER XXXII.25,139 chars
  35. 35CHAPTER XXXIII.11,484 chars
  36. 36BOOK IV. THREE LOVE PROBLEMS.16,977 chars
  37. 37CHAPTER XXXV.24,821 chars
  38. 38CHAPTER XXXVI.33,358 chars
  39. 39CHAPTER XXXVII.46,723 chars
  40. 40CHAPTER XXXVIII.18,094 chars
  41. 41CHAPTER XXXIX.25,398 chars
  42. 42CHAPTER XL.29,123 chars
  43. 43CHAPTER XLI.11,064 chars
  44. 44CHAPTER XLII.26,147 chars
  45. 45BOOK V. THE DEAD HAND.14,990 chars
  46. 46CHAPTER XLIV.6,824 chars
  47. 47CHAPTER XLV.39,433 chars
  48. 48CHAPTER XLVI.20,171 chars
  49. 49CHAPTER XLVII.12,293 chars
  50. 50CHAPTER XLVIII.19,890 chars
  51. 51CHAPTER XLIX.8,187 chars
  52. 52CHAPTER L.22,461 chars
  53. 53CHAPTER LI.27,436 chars
  54. 54CHAPTER LII.19,864 chars
  55. 55CHAPTER LIII.28,624 chars
  56. 56BOOK VI. THE WIDOW AND THE WIFE.25,145 chars
  57. 57CHAPTER LV.9,688 chars
  58. 58CHAPTER LVI.41,910 chars
  59. 59CHAPTER LVII.21,007 chars
  60. 60CHAPTER LVIII.41,518 chars
  61. 61CHAPTER LIX.6,341 chars
  62. 62CHAPTER LX.23,518 chars
  63. 63CHAPTER LXI.30,766 chars
  64. 64CHAPTER LXII.24,712 chars
  65. 65BOOK VII. TWO TEMPTATIONS.16,514 chars
  66. 66CHAPTER LXIV.36,457 chars
  67. 67CHAPTER LXV.11,060 chars
  68. 68CHAPTER LXVI.20,679 chars
  69. 69CHAPTER LXVII.17,019 chars
  70. 70CHAPTER LXVIII.17,259 chars
  71. 71CHAPTER LXIX.21,454 chars
  72. 72CHAPTER LXX.27,447 chars
  73. 73CHAPTER LXXI.36,471 chars
  74. 74BOOK VIII. SUNSET AND SUNRISE.8,130 chars
  75. 75CHAPTER LXXIII.9,196 chars
  76. 76CHAPTER LXXIV.23,163 chars
  77. 77CHAPTER LXXV.16,489 chars
  78. 78CHAPTER LXXVI.21,658 chars
  79. 79CHAPTER LXXVII.15,658 chars
  80. 80CHAPTER LXXVIII.9,118 chars
  81. 81CHAPTER LXXIX.4,773 chars
  82. 82CHAPTER LXXX.13,687 chars
  83. 83CHAPTER LXXXI.21,475 chars
  84. 84CHAPTER LXXXII.8,614 chars
  85. 85CHAPTER LXXXIII.16,341 chars
  86. 86CHAPTER LXXXIV.20,150 chars
  87. 87CHAPTER LXXXV.7,146 chars
  88. 88CHAPTER LXXXVI.8,514 chars
  89. 89FINALE.15,711 chars