For android instal Middlemarch12/11/2023 ![]() ![]() That child-pilgrimage was a fit beginning. ![]() "They've produced the greatest writer in the English language ever, George Eliot, and arguably the third greatest, Jane Austen, and certainly the greatest novel, ‘Middlemarch’.Who that cares much to know the history of man, and how the mysterious mixture behaves under the varying experiments of Time, has not dwelt, at least briefly, on the life of Saint Theresa, has not smiled with some gentleness at the thought of the little girl walking forth one morning hand-in-hand with her still smaller brother, to go and seek martyrdom in the country of the Moors? Out they toddled from rugged Avila, wide-eyed and helpless-looking as two fawns, but with human hearts, already beating to a national idea until domestic reality met them in the shape of uncles, and turned them back from their great resolve. "‘Middlemarch’ is probably the greatest English novel." -Julian Barnes ![]() ![]() The mysteries of human nature surpass the 'mysteries of redemption,' for the infinite we only suppose, while we see the finite." -Emily Dickinson "What do I think of ‘Middlemarch’? What do I think of glory - except that in a few instances this 'mortal has already put on immortality.' George Eliot was one. "One of the few English novels written for grown-up people." -Virginia Woolf It is truly, as Virginia Woolf famously remarked, 'one of the few English novels written for grown-up people'. Vast and crowded, rich in narrative irony and suspense, «Middlemarch» is richer still in character, in its sense of how individual destinies are shaped by and shape the community, and in the great art that enlarges the reader's sympathy and imagination. It was her ambition to create a world and portray a whole community-tradespeople, middle classes, country gentry-in the rising provincial town of Middlemarch, circa 1830. By the time the novel appeared to tremendous popular and critical acclaim in 1871-2, George Eliot was recognized as England's finest living novelist. ![]()
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