
Middlemarch
Author: George Eliot
Narrator: Lopez Mickaël
Unabridged: 51 hr 27 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Mika
Published: 02/10/2026
Categories: Fiction, Historical Fiction, Classic, Literary Fiction

Author: George Eliot
Narrator: Lopez Mickaël
Unabridged: 51 hr 27 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Mika
Published: 02/10/2026
Categories: Fiction, Historical Fiction, Classic, Literary Fiction
George Eliot is the masculine pen name of Mary Ann Evans (1819–1880), one of Victorian England's leading novelists. Her first stories appeared in Blackwood's magazine, followed by such novels as The Mill on the Floss, Silas Marner, and Middlemarch. Her work was popular with critics and the public alike, and in later years her novels were especially valued for their detailed portrayals of rural English life.
The title of this book is a direct allusion to the beginning of Paradise Lost: Sing Heav'nly Muse...I thence Invoke thy aid to my adventrous Song, That with no middle flight intends to soar Above th' Aonian Mount, while it pursues Things unattempted yet in Prose or Rhime. In Eliot's hands the heavenly fl......more
Incredibly wonderful novel! The numerous plots were deftly handled and intertwined, but I found the most impressive element to be the depth and complexity of her characters. Lots of social and moral dilemmas -- no preachiness, no simple answers. But lots of humor and lots of pathos. One dimensional......more
Really long. Wouldn't really recommend it to anyone that I know.......more
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