Middlemarch by GEORGE ELIOT abridged and read by GABRIEL WOOLF
Produced by John Cardy
Part 2: The Widow and the Wife
First of fifteen Instalments
Dorothea's marriage to Mr. Casaubon has not proved to be the sublime experience she expected. But however often the anticipated wedded bliss falls below expectations. there are always fresh recruits to the ranks. Tertius Lydgate , Rosamond Vincy. Celia Brooke , and Sir James Chettam are all going to try it, and Fred Vincy would like to take Mary Garth to the altar, too. And Fred cherishes another fond hope-that there will be a good inheritance for him when old Uncle Feather-stone passes on ...