A New Yorker writer revisits the seminal book of her youth--Middlemarch--and fashions a singular, involving story of how a passionate attachment to a great work

MiddlemarchA Study of Provincial Lifeby George EliotOften called the greatest nineteenth-century British novelist, George Eliot (the pen name of Mary Ann Evans)

An extraordinary masterpiece written from personal experience, Middlemarch is a deep psychological observation of human nature that revolves around the issues o

Vast and crowded, rich in irony and suspense, Middlemarch is richer still in character, with two of the era's most enduring characters, Dorothea Brooke, trapped

In New York City business districts, billions of dollars are traded everyday and power deals are closed every minute. Within the hundreds of skyscrapers there a