Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress.
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Middlemarch
by George Eliot, Jessica Hische, Francine Prose, ReadinGreat, Claire Jarvis, and Margot Everett
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Eliot’s epic of 19th century provincial social life, set in a fictitious Midlands town in the years 1830-32, has several interlocking storylines blended effortlessly together to form a fully coherent narrative. Its main themes are the status of women, social expectations and hypocrisy, religion, political reform and education. It has often been called the greatest novel in the English language.
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