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Sample ## Take a look inside Middlemarch George Eliot New York and Boston H. M. Caldwell Company Publishers To my dear Husband, George Henry Lewes, in this nineteenth year of our blessed union. Contents PRELUDE. BOOK I. MISS BROOKE. CHAPTER I. CHAPTER II. CHAPTER III. CHAPTER IV. CHAPTER V. CHAPTER VI. CHAPTER VII. CHAPTER VIII. CHAPTER IX. CHAPTER X. CHAPTER XI. CHAPTER XII. BOOK II. OLD AND YOUNG. CHAPTER XIII. CHAPTER XIV. CHAPTER XV. CHAPTER XVI. CHAPTER XVII. CHAPTER XVIII. CHAPTER XIX. CHAPTER XX. CHAPTER XXI. CHAPTER XXII. BOOK III. WAITING FOR DEATH. CHAPTER XXIII. CHAPTER XXIV. CHAPTER XXV. CHAPTER XXVI. CHAPTER XXVII. CHAPTER XXVIII. CHAPTER XXIX. CHAPTER XXX. CHAPTER XXXI. CHAPTER XXXII. CHAPTER XXXIII. BOOK IV. THREE LOVE PROBLEMS. CHAPTER XXXIV. CHAPTER XXXV. CHAPTER XXXVI. CHAPTER XXXVII. CHAPTER XXXVIII. CHAPTER XXXIX. CHAPTER XL. CHAPTER XLI. CHAPTER XLII. BOOK V. THE DEAD HAND. CHAPTER XLIII. CHAPTER XLIV. CHAPTER XLV. CHAPTER XLVI. CHAPTER XLVII. CHAPTER XLVIII. CHAPTER XLIX. CHAPTER L. CHAPTER LI. CHAPTER LII. CHAPTER LIII. BOOK VI. THE WIDOW AND THE WIFE. CHAPTER LIV. CHAPTER LV. CHAPTER LVI. CHAPTER LVII. CHAPTER LVIII. CHAPTER LIX. CHAPTER LX. CHAPTER LXI. CHAPTER LXII. BOOK VII. TWO TEMPTATIONS. CHAPTER LXIII. CHAPTER LXIV. CHAPTER LXV. CHAPTER LXVI. CHAPTER LXVII. CHAPTER LXVIII. CHAPTER LXIX. CHAPTER LXX. CHAPTER LXXI. BOOK VIII. SUNSET AND SUNRISE. CHAPTER LXXII. CHAPTER LXXIII. CHAPTER LXXIV. CHAPTER LXXV. CHAPTER LXXVI. CHAPTER LXXVII. CHAPTER LXXVIII. CHAPTER LXXIX. CHAPTER LXXX. CHAPTER LXXXI. CHAPTER LXXXII. CHAPTER LXXXIII. CHAPTER LXXXIV. CHAPTER LXXXV. CHAPTER LXXXVI. FINALE. PRELUDE. 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