Madame Bovary
Gustave Flaubert · Realism · Novel
Victorian · Novel
Middlemarch
by George Eliot. Lives in a provincial town intertwine in a profound study of idealism, compromise, vocation, sympathy, and social consequence.
- Date
- 1871–1872
- Origin
- England
- Era
- Victorian
- Genre
- Novel
- Difficulty
- Moderate
- Length
- Very long
- Collection
- The Western Canon
Subjects and themes
Why it matters
Lives in a provincial town intertwine in a profound study of idealism, compromise, vocation, sympathy, and social consequence.
This work is included in the collection on the basis of bloom. Its cataloged influence level is 5 out of 5.
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