Middlemarch
novel by George Eliot
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Summary
Middlemarch is a literary work[1]. Middlemarch ranks in the top 0.64% of literary work entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (19,404 views/month, #183 of 28,446).[2]
Key Facts
- Author: George Eliot[3]
- Genre: realist novel[4]
- Follows: Felix Holt, the Radical[5]
- Followed by: Daniel Deronda[6]
- Commons category: Middlemarch[7]
- Language of work or name: English[8]
- Country of origin: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland[9]
- Publication date: 1871[10]
- Has edition or translation: Middlemarch[11], Middlemarch: ELTeC edition[12], Q111821061[13]
- Described by source: The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Victorian Women's Writing[14], New International Encyclopedia[15]
- Title: Middlemarch[16]
- Subtitle: A Study of Provincial Life[17]
- First line: Who that cares much to know the history of man, and how the mysterious mixture behaves under the varying experiments of Time, has not dwelt, at least briefly, on the life of Saint Theresa, has not smiled with some gentleness at the thought of the little girl walking forth one morning hand-in-hand with her still smaller brother, to go and seek martyrdom in the country of the Moors?[18]
- Last line: But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.[19]
- Derivative work: Middlemarch[20]
- Copyright status: public domain[21]
- Form of creative work: novel[22]
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Why It Matters
Middlemarch has Wikipedia articles in 19 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[25] Middlemarch is known by 18 alternative names across languages and contexts.[26]