And certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder that we are so fond of it.

From Middlemarch

"According to Virginia Woolf, Middlemarch is one of the few English novels for grown-up people."

Middlemarch, probably George Eliot's most famous and comprehensive novel, intended as a study of provincial British life, was first published in 1871 and 1872, in eight parts, coming out every two months and has a wonderfully complex social world where it represents the life of ordinary people.