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| Middlemarch appears to be a sprawling Victorian novel, as
random and accidental as life itself, but this effect is deliberate,
for as her notebooks show, George Eliot planned the book in
great detail, combining two separate plots into one to create
a complex whole. Though set in a specific time and place - an
early 19th century Midlands provincial town - it probes right
into the heart of the human condition and transcends historical
limitations. Once described as a novel "for grown up people",
it will remain one of the great novels of all time. |
| John Axon is a former teacher and university
English lecturer. |
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