Middlemarch is George Eliot’s classic story of the lives and loves of people living in a small English town. The idealistic Dorothea, unhappy and bored with her marriage, begins a sensitive friendship with her husband’s young cousin, Will Ladislaw. Meanwhile, the beautiful but spoilt Rosamond Vincey wants to marry the idealist but poor Doctor Lydgate. Lydgate does not want to get married, but Rosamond is determined to change his mind...