"[This novel] follows the life, loves, foibles, and politics of the residents of a fictional English town set amid the social unrest during the Industrial Revolution"--Provided by publisher.
The lives of three people in a nineteenth-century provincial community become entwined as crusader Dorothea Brooke is prevented from being with the man she loves, the idealistic Dr. Lydgate succumbs to materialism, and religious hypocrite Bulstrode tries to hide his past crimes.
