Middlemarch , a study of provincial life

British novelist George Eliot painted a rich and vivid potrait of a small 19th century town in her acclaimed novel , middlemarch. Published in eight parts in 1871-1872 and also published in four volumes in 1872 , Eliot's Magnum Opus delves into the lives of people belonging to various classes in middlemarch - the landed gentry , clergy , farmers , labourers and professionals The narrative revolves around two central characters -Dorothea Brooke , ab intelligent woman who married the wrong man , and Tertius lydgate, an ambitious, progressive doctor who also makes a costly mistake while choosing a mate