Middlemarch

George Eliot

A novel about the effects of private choices within a wider community. Chapter LXXII puts Dorothea’s wish to make life less difficult for others inside a conversation about Lydgate and damaging rumours. Read the exchange and its competing assumptions before treating a character’s sentence as the author’s universal advice. This Caldwell edition offers checked related reading; it is not claimed to be the printing used by the archive’s historical anthologies.

Who it suits

Readers interested in sympathy, reputation and the consequences of judging other people.

Reading experience

Demanding; a long novel with an interconnected cast and historical social conventions. This is an Edsverb editorial guide, not a measured reading score.

The edition

Edition

English H. M. Caldwell Company edition, New York and Boston; print year unspecified in this e-text

Language

English

Publisher

H. M. Caldwell Company

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