Since I've been told bigger is better, and long reviews are better than short ones, I've decided to update my short Middlemarch review with a long one:Although Eliot started working on the serialised chapters of Middlemarch around about 1868 (they were published three years later), it is set in rou...
Middlemarch is a towering achievement. It's tough to find words strong enough to describe it; I mean, I just finished Madame Bovary and called it perfect, so where do I go from there? Middlemarch is almost three times as long and it's still perfect; that's more impressive. But Anna Karenina is prett...
I noticed before I started reading it that a lot of people in their reviews noted that Middlemarch was "a writer's book." This seemed sort of silly to me, but now I understand it. George Eliot is the master of creating fully realized, inner lives for all of her characters, even the most blamable one...
Took me forever to finish this! I read it as an audiobook, which I think was probably doing it a disservice, as it's very long and slow-moving, which makes it very easy for me to get distracted and let my thoughts wander. Also, since it was downloaded from Librivox, not all readers were equally insp...
I love the writing of George Eliot, esp as a young adult. This was hands down my favorite by her. I loved the characters and really felt this book was kind of magical. Def. one which could be read over and over again.
"This was one of the massive summer reads for my online Classics Club book club. I even think I nominated it as an option, so I am admittedly a fan of this work. I first read it in 1996, back when I was supposed to be avoiding anything in English as part of the contract for my German immersion summe...
It's so rare that I read a book written in third person omniscient that the leapfrogging in and out of people's heads was sometimes a little jarring. It was also a little off-putting to be transported occasionally from the story to the present for the narrator's comments which more than not started ...
I picked this up because it's a favorite of one of my favorite professors and shortly afterwards, I found out I would need it for school. Some people find Middlemarch slow becacuse they don't feel that it has much of a storyline, but I disagree.It is true that Middlemarch isn't a fast read, nor is ...
This one deserves 10 stars, it is really one of the most incredible books I've ever read. I think I've only given a brilliant rating to the Count of Monte Cristo and Bleak House. This is a fascinating character study of the people of Middlemarch, a town in Victorian England. I can't even begin to tr...
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