Middlemarch
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George Eliot
Introduction and Notes by Doreen Roberts, Rutherford College, University of Kent at Canterbury. Middlemarch is a complex tale of idealism, disillusion, profligacy, loyalty and frustrated love. This penetrating analysis of the life of an English provincial town during the time of social unrest prior to the Reform Bill of 1832 is told through the lives of Dorothea Brooke and Dr Tertius Lydgate and includes a host of other paradigm characters who illuminate the condition of English life in the mid-nineteenth century. Henry James described Middlemarch as a 'treasurehouse of detail' while Virginia Woolf famously endorsed George Eliot's masterpiece as 'one of the few English novels written for grown-up people.
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Author
George Eliot
Pages
688
Publisher
Wordsworth Editions
Published Date
1994
ISBN
1853262374 9781853262371
Ratings
Google: 5
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"The opposite of novels by Dumas, which are all plot and very shallow on character study. Lots of great insights into human nature here, through the inner life of the protagonists and their antagonists. Martin Amis and Julian Barnes think this the greatest novel in English."
Fred
"I think it’s a perfect novel. "
Rebecca Staffel
"My favorite Victorian novel. Eliot has an almost omnscient insight into human nature and an infinite patience for its weaknesses. Her observations ranging from scholaraship to sexuality are as relevant and often hilarious."
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Iain
"This should take you around 22 hours and 52 minutes to read at 200 words per minute."
Amanda Blacksmith
"I just finished Lady Clementine, historical fiction of Winston Churchill’s wife by Marie Benedict. I finished it in 2 days. I absolutely loved it. I didn’t realize how much influence, strength and love of the British people she had. A great lady not without flaws but she recognizes those flaws and builds upon them. You won’t be disappointed. "
Dawn Rubino
"I find this era quite unbearable with manners, religion, class, etiquette, gossip and not being to say what you think so often but I got into this far too long book and stuck it out to the end. I swapped to audiobook after about a 1/3 of the way in and that made it a lot easier to make progress. I am at a bit of loss to say why I enjoyed it. The last section of the book seemed like everyone was unhappy and doomed. I had to finish it to see if she could eke out a happy (or less gloomy) ending."
John Woakes
