Considered as one of the greatest novels in English literature, Middlemarch by George Eliot created a rich portrait of all walks of life in a small early 19th-century English town. Novelist Virginia Woolf called it "one of the few English novels written for grown-up people".

Considered as one of the greatest novels in English literature, Middlemarch by George Eliot created a rich portrait of all walks of life in a small early 19th-century English town. Novelist Virginia Woolf called it "one of the few English novels written for grown-up people".