Chapter 51
Mr. Brooke's disastrous hustings speech, heckled by his own effigy.
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From Middlemarch by George Eliot
Set on the eve of the 1832 Reform Bill, the novel weaves political reform, railway expansion, and medical innovation into the texture of provincial society.
Chapter 56
The railway surveyors are attacked by farm laborers; Caleb Garth defends progress.
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