Middlemarch
by George Eliot(1871)
Novelc. 800 pages
“But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts.”
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by George Eliot(1871)
“But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts.”
George Eliot(1871)
Dorothea Brooke wants to do something great with her life and makes a disastrous first marriage to a desiccated scholar. The novel sprawls across an English provincial town in the years before the Reform Bill, examining doctors, clergymen, bankers, and landowners with equal sympathy and intelligence. George Eliot was Mary Ann Evans, writing under a male pseudonym to be taken seriously, and she took everything seriously. The sentences are long, the moral vision complex, the web of social relations intricate as actual life. Virginia Woolf called it one of the few English novels written for grown-up people. She was right.