<DIV><DIV>Bright, beautiful, and rebellious Dorothea has married the wrong man, and Lydgate?the ambitious new doctor in town?has married the wrong woman. Both of them long to make a positive difference in the world, but their lives do not proceed as expected. Along with the other inhabitants of Middlemarch, they must struggle to reconcile themselves to their fates and find their places in the world.</DIV></DIV>