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Many authors consider Eliot's Middlemarch to be among the best books ever written.
Middlemarch = George Eliot novel that portrays a web of social interaction and is described by many as one of the greatest novels of all time (1871)
- An hour later, Spencer sat at the kitchen table reading Middlemarch—a book on the English AP "suggested reading" list—when she began to sneeze. (source)
- They had finished Middlemarch in a week and it had given them plenty to discuss. (source)
- "If you two don't mind, I'll continue reading him some Middlemarch," she said. (source)
- She was by way of being terrified of him—he was so fearfully clever, and the first night when she had sat by him, and he talked about George Eliot, she had been really frightened, for she had left the third volume of MIDDLEMARCH in the train and she never knew what happened in the end; but afterwards she got on perfectly, and made herself out even more ignorant than she was, because he liked telling her she was a fool. (source)
- The box was full of things he had been waiting for impatiently; a new volume of Herbert Spencer, another collection of the prolific Alphonse Daudet's brilliant tales, and a novel called "Middlemarch," as to which there had lately been interesting things said in the reviews. (source)
- In "Romeo and Juliet" Juliet has to be important, just as, in "Adam Bede" and "The Mill on the Floss" and "Middlemarch" and "Daniel Deronda," Hetty Sorrel and Maggie Tulliver and Rosamond Vincy and Gwendolen Harleth have to be; with that much of firm ground, that much of bracing air, at the disposal all the while of their feet and their lungs. (source)
- Spencer pretended to study Middlemarch's boring back cover. (source)
- Her bookmark was soon ahead of his in Middlemarch, and she was on Zola before he was done. (source)
- He stopped and turned to see the Agent pointing decisively at Middlemarch. (source)
- Middlemarch. (source)
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- For if PRIDE AND PREJUDICE matters, and MIDDLEMARCH and VILLETTE and WUTHERING HEIGHTS matter, then it matters far more than I can prove in an hour's discourse that women generally, and not merely the lonely aristocrat shut up in her country house among her folios and her flatterers, took to writing. (source)
- But they were not granted; they were withheld; and we must accept the fact that all those good novels, VILLETTE, EMMA, WUTHERING HEIGHTS, MIDDLEMARCH, were written by women without more experience of life than could enter the house of a respectable clergyman; written too in the common sitting-room of that respectable house and by women so poor that they could not afford to buy more than a few quires of paper at a time upon which to write WUTHERING HEIGHTS or JANE EYRE. (source)
- Elmos/ and ten /Ivanhoes/, but only one /Middlemarch/. (source)
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