MiddlemarchEliot, George
Middlemarch
Dorothea Brooke and the doctor Tertius Lydgate arrive at adulthood with ambitions that the English town of Middlemarch has little room for. Their choices bring a wide cast of neighbors into one another’s lives.
From the English edition
Who that cares much to know the history of man, and how the mysterious mixture behaves under the varying experiments of Time, has not dwelt, at least briefly, on the life of Saint Theresa, has not smiled with some gentleness at the thought of the little girl walking forth one morning hand-in-hand with her still smaller brother, to go and seek martyrdom in the country of the Moors? Out they toddled from rugged Avila, wide-eyed and helpless-looking as two fawns, but…
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Project Gutenberg eBook 145 · English
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