Forever Learning Institute

Middlemarch is unanimously regarded as George Eliot's rich and intelligent masterpiece. Few English novels have attempted so broad a canvas as is suggested in its subtitle: "A Study in Provincial Life." With her signature sympathetic tolerance, she presents every phase of provincial life from landowners, through middle class professionals to laborers and servants. Even the eight or nine dogs in the novel are fully realized. Any edition will do; for our first class, please read the first nine chapters.