Middlemarch
Americannoun
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While Penguin reported a spike of people reading expansive classics such as Middlemarch and War and Peace this year, not all stories are best told at length.
From The Guardian • Oct. 29, 2020
Ross finds “traces” of Wagner in Middlemarch, Waldorf schools, Disney iconography, comic-book superheroes, and the fantasies that drove Viennese urban planners and architects of Chicago skyscrapers.
From Slate • Oct. 17, 2020
In the early days of the coronavirus lockdown my Twitter feed was full of conversations about whether it was time to read Middlemarch or The Brothers Karamazov, Bleak House or The Anatomy of Melancholy.
From The Guardian • Jul. 18, 2020
Q. Solemn play: My boyfriend has been reading me the novel Middlemarch out loud, and the character we both find the most compelling is Dr. Casaubon.
From Slate • Jul. 14, 2020
Emma was thrilled by the presence of one of the guests—the novelist known as George Eliot, author of one of Emma’s favorite books, Middlemarch.
From "Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith" by Deborah Heiligman
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