Middlemarch wells I tell you this because

I tell you this because you may think you know this story

Her first position with the wild and unruly Bloomfield children proves disastrous

the divided East and West refuse to parley

and when that line is crossed and secrets are exposed

recording every thought and detail

Middlemarch wells I tell you this becauseThe most ambitious narrative of nineteenth century realism, Middlemarch tells the story of an entire town in the years leading up to the Reform Bill of 1832, a time when modern methods were starting to challenge old orthodoxies. Eliot's sophisticated and acute characterization gives rich expression to every nuance of feeling, and vividly brings to life the town's inhabitants including the young idealist Dorothea Brooke, the dry scholar Casaubon, the