[Middlemarch. A Study of Provincial Life]
Year:
1874
Type:
Public:
Publisher:
Penguin
Year of publication:
2015
Pages:
800
Moral assessment:
Type: Literature
Nothing inappropriate.
Some morally inappropriate content.
Contains significant sections contrary to faith or morals.
Contains some lurid passages, or presents a general ideological framework that could confuse those without much Christian formation.
Contains several lurid passages, or presents an ideological framework that is contrary or foreign to Christian values.
Explicitly contradicts Catholic faith or morals, or is directed against the Church and its institutions.
Literary quality:
Recommendable:
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The rating of the different categories comes from the opinion of Delibris' collaborators
Middlemarch is in fictional Loamshire at the time of the Reform Bill. Dorothea Brooke marries the elderly Mr. Casaubon, and her sister Celia later married Sir James Chettam. Dorothea's marriage is unhappy and she forms a close friendship with her husband's cousin, Will Ladislaw. George Eliot was born in 1819 and died in 1880. This is a study of provincial life during a time of great upheaval in both the political and social spheres. It hightlights the importance of marriage fidelity. Though considerably didactic, the novel was hugely popular and has cemented the book as a great work of English fiction.
C.C. (U.K., 2016)