Middlemarch

Name: Middlemarch
Author: George Eliot

A Study of Provincial Life

George Eliot

English · 1871–1872 · Fiction

George Eliot's novel of intertwined lives in an English provincial town, read for its moral intelligence and wide, detailed portrait of a community.

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Dedication
Prelude
Book I: Miss Brooke
Chapter IThe Maid’s Tragedy: Beaumont and Fletcher :::
Chapter II“Seest thou not yon cavalier who cometh toward us on a dapple-gray…
Chapter III… Eve The story heard attentive, and was filled With admiration, and…
Chapter IVAy, truly: but I think it is the world That brings the iron. :::
Chapter VBurton’s Anatomy of Melancholy, P. I, s. 2 :::
Chapter VIAs Mr. Casaubon’s carriage was passing out of the gateway, it…
Chapter VIIItalian Proverb :::
Chapter VIIIIt was wonderful to Sir James Chettam how well he continued to like…
Chapter IXWhy, where they lay of old —in human souls. :::
Chapter XFuller :::
Chapter XIBen Jonson :::
Chapter XIIChaucer :::
Book II: Old and Young
Chapter XIIINay, tell me how you class your wealth of books, The drifted relics…
Chapter XIVMr. Bulstrode’s consultation of Harriet seemed to have had the effect…
Chapter XVOh, I track the fairest fair Through new haunts of pleasure…
Chapter XVISir Charles Sedley :::
Chapter XVIIThe Rev. Camden Farebrother, whom Lydgate went to see the next…
Chapter XVIIISome weeks passed after this conversation before the question of the…
Chapter XIXPurgatorio, vii :::
Chapter XXTwo hours later, Dorothea was seated in an inner room or boudoir of a…
Chapter XXIChaucer :::
Chapter XXIIAlfred De Musset :::
Book III: Waiting for Death
Chapter XXIIIFred Vincy, we have seen, had a debt on his mind, and though no such…
Chapter XXIVShakespeare: Sonnets :::
Chapter XXV⋮
Chapter XXVITroilus and Cressida :::
Chapter XXVIIAn eminent philosopher among my friends, who can dignify even your…
Chapter XXVIIIWhy, true. The calendar hath not an evil day For souls made one by…
Chapter XXIXGoldsmith :::
Chapter XXXPascal :::
Chapter XXXILydgate that evening spoke to Miss Vincy of Mrs. Casaubon, and laid…
Chapter XXXIIShakespeare: Tempest :::
Chapter XXXIII2 Henry VI :::
Book IV: Three Love Problems
Chapter XXXIVBut levity Is causal too, and makes the sum of weight. For power…
Chapter XXXVRegnard: Le Légataire Universel :::
Chapter XXXVIDaniel: Tragedy of Philotas :::
Chapter XXXVIISpenser :::
Chapter XXXVIIIGuizot :::
Chapter XXXIXAnd if this love, though placed so, From profane men you hide, Which…
Chapter XLIn watching effects, if only of an electric battery, it is often…
Chapter XLITwelfth Night :::
Chapter XLIIShakespeare: Henry VIII :::
Book V: The Dead Hand
Chapter XLIIIDorothea seldom left home without her husband, but she did…
Chapter XLIVWhen Dorothea, walking round the laurel-planted plots of the New…
Chapter XLVSir Thomas Browne: Pseudodoxia Epidemica :::
Chapter XLVISince we cannot get what we like, let us like what we can get.
Chapter XLVIIIt happened to be on a Saturday evening that Will Ladislaw had that…
Chapter XLVIIIDorothea’s distress when she was leaving the church came chiefly from…
Chapter XLIX“I wish to God we could hinder Dorothea from knowing this,” said Sir…
Chapter LCanterbury Tales :::
Chapter LINo gossip about Mr. Casaubon’s will had yet reached Ladislaw: the air…
Chapter LIIWordsworth :::
Chapter LIIIMr. Bulstrode, when he was hoping to acquire a new interest in…
Book VI: The Widow and the Wife
Chapter LIVDante: La Vita Nuova :::
Chapter LVIf youth is the season of hope, it is often so only in the sense that…
Chapter LVISir Henry Wotton :::
Chapter LVIIThe evening that Fred Vincy walked to Lowick parsonage (he had begun…
Chapter LVIIIShakespeare: Sonnets :::
Chapter LIXNews is often dispersed as thoughtlessly and effectively as that…
Chapter LXJustice Shallow :::
Chapter LXIRasselas :::
Chapter LXIIOld Romance :::
Book VII: Two Temptations
Chapter LXIIIGoldsmith :::
Chapter LXIVNay, power is relative; you cannot fright The coming pest with border…
Chapter LXVChaucer: Canterbury Tales :::
Chapter LXVIMeasure for Measure :::
Chapter LXVIIHappily Lydgate had ended by losing in the billiard-room, and brought…
Chapter LXVIIIDaniel: Musophilus :::
Chapter LXIXEcclesiasticus :::
Chapter LXXBulstrode’s first object after Lydgate had left Stone Court was to…
Chapter LXXI… ’Twas in the Bunch of Grapes, where, indeed, you have a delight to…
Book VIII: Sunset and Sunrise
Chapter LXXIIDorothea’s impetuous generosity, which would have leaped at once to…
Chapter LXXIIIWhen Lydgate had allayed Mrs. Bulstrode’s anxiety by telling her that…
Chapter LXXIVBook of Tobit: Marriage Prayer :::
Chapter LXXVPascal :::
Chapter LXXVI⋮
Chapter LXXVIIHenry V :::
Chapter LXXVIIIRosamond and Will stood motionless—they did not know how long—he…
Chapter LXXIXBunyan :::
Chapter LXXXWordsworth: Ode to Duty
Chapter LXXXIFaust: 2r Theil :::
Chapter LXXXIIShakespeare: Sonnets :::
Chapter LXXXIIIDr. Donne :::
Chapter LXXXIVThe Not-Browne Mayde :::
Chapter LXXXVPilgrim’s Progress :::
Chapter LXXXVIVictor Hugo: L’homme qui rit :::
Finale

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Middlemarch

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