In Middlemarch George Eliot gives us a portrait of provincial life in Victorian England that has never been surpassed.

The novel centres on the marriages of Dorothea and of Lydgate and on the web of relationships that connects us to each other While eagerly awating the next part of the Middlemarch serial in 1872 the Spector critic declared that 'Middlemarch bids more than fair to be one of the great books of the world'.