Follows the love and financial problems of Dorothea Brooke, a crusader, who is prevented from being with the man she loves, and of the idealistic Dr. Lydgate, who succumbs to materialism.
Young Maggie Tulliver's loyalty to her beloved older brother, Tom, and to the rest of her family, is tragically tested when she falls in love with the son of her father's bitterest enemy.
