Middlemarch

Newly-arrived Dr Tertius Lydgate is put in charge of the fever hospital in Middlemarch.

Young idealists clash with tradition in a small 19th-century English town.

Dorothea and Casaubon honeymoon in Rome; Lydgate is appointed medical director of the hospital.

The Vincy family faces financial problems; Casaubon has a heart attack.

England faces an election and reform bill; Dorothea hears Casaubon's will.

Financial difficulties push Lydgate and Rosamond apart; Fred returns.

Lydgate faces the dismal prospect of bankruptcy and foreclosure.

Raffles returns to Middlemarch and his arrival changes the community.