Middlemarch - George Eliot Niek Hendriks uncluttered by materialism and alive

uncluttered by materialism and alive to the beauty of the world around him

maar met een wijde boog om de Kluis heen

often by love - into flowers

In the course of her daily life - Saturday chores

Middlemarch - George Eliot Niek Hendriks uncluttered by materialism and aliveGeorge Eliot's most ambitious novel is a masterly evocation of diverse lives and changing fortunes in a provincial community. Peopling its landscape are Dorothea Brooke, a young idealist whose search for intellectual fulfillment leads her into a disastrous marriage to the pedantic scholar Casaubon; the charming but tactless Dr Lydgate, whose marriage to the spendthrift beauty Rosamund and pioneering medical methods threaten to undermine his career;