<p>One of the great novels of nineteenth-century England, Middlemarch is concerned with the blighted marriage of a young idealistic woman, but also presents a vivid portrait of England during the 1830s.<p>
The lonely and unhappy life of a miserly recluse is transformed when he takes in an orphaned child and raises her as his own daughter. Read by Andrew Sachs.
This is the challenge thrown down to Esther Lyon, George Eliot's heroine in FELIX HOLT: THE RADICAL (1866). Esther's 'airs and graces', her proud and sensitive dreams of marrying into a life of refinement are transformed in the course of the novel, as she makes her choice between Harold Transome, wh ...
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