false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167197977m/19093.jpg 19089 128 One of the most accomplished and prominent novels of the Victorian era, <i>Middlemarch</i> is an unsurpassed portrait of nineteenth-century English provincial life. Dorothea Brooke is a young woman of fervent ideals who yearns to effect social change yet faces resistance from the society she inhabits. In this epic in a small landscape, Eliot's large cast of precisely delineated characters and the rich tapestry of their stories result in a wise, compassionate, and astute vision of human nature. As Virginia Woolf declared, George Eliot "was one of the first English novelists to discover that men and women think as well as feel, and the discovery was of great artistic moment."<br><br><br><i>From the Trade Paperback edition.</i> 1461747 book 1872 Middlemarch total:7412|5:2953|4:2343|3:1476|2:437|1:203| 7412 29642 13135 1039 19089 0451529170 9780451529176 5830 757 4.00 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255790409m/19089.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19089.Middlemarch 5 37 false Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1997 Wed Sep 05 10:20:11 -0700 2007 Thu Sep 27 20:52:02 -0700 2007 more...]]> 271276 0141439548 9780141439549 504 73 4.00 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173306085m/271276.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/271276.Middlemarch 4 20 false Sat Nov 21 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Apr 16 08:26:38 -0700 2008 Mon Nov 23 07:42:27 -0800 2009 Oh, my constant companion, the time has come for us to part. How shall I bear it? What will this estrangement do to me? George, please, tell me how can I go on?

I am feeling a little melodramatic. It may be that George Eliot has been my constant companion for two months and now that we ar...more...]]> 19089 0451529170 9780451529176 5830 757 4.00 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255790409m/19089.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19089.Middlemarch 5 22 false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Jul 18 06:01:33 -0700 2007 Tue Aug 21 18:11:03 -0700 2007
Seriously, this shit's bananas. B-A-N-A-N-A-S. 750 pages in, and you're still being surprised. It's 800 pages long and EVERY SINGLE PAGE ADVANCES THE PLOT. You cannot believe it until you read it.

This is a writer's book. By which I mean, and I say...more...]]> 595001 0192834029 9780192834027 185 35 4.00 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/595001.Middlemarch 5 16 false Mon Apr 01 00:00:00 -0800 1996 Fri Jul 11 05:37:38 -0700 2008 Fri Jul 11 05:39:44 -0700 2008 the quintessential Victorian novel, Middlemarch is a superb study of life among the upper and upper middle classes of a fictional rural community in 1830s England. It takes 900 pages to draw its conclusions, but they're 900 pages of some of the richest realist writing nineteenth-c...more...]]> 19089 0451529170 9780451529176 5830 757 4.00 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255790409m/19089.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19089.Middlemarch 5 11 false Wed Oct 10 21:13:14 -0700 2007 Wed Oct 10 21:13:14 -0700 2007 more...]]> 19090 1593080239 9781593080235 127 29 4.00 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167197977m/19090.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19090.Middlemarch_Barnes_Noble_Classics_ 5 8 false Sat Jun 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 16 05:22:06 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 24 01:10:33 -0700 2009
Delusions, self-induced or otherwise, form the central theme that runs through Middlemarch. Dorothea Brooke, thirsting for knowledge and a meaningful occupation, deludes herself that ...more...]]> 1474235 067960118X 9780679601180 15 1 4.00 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1183987186m/1474235.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1474235.Middlemarch 5 17 false Sun Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 24 22:57:57 -0700 2009 Thu Nov 19 10:04:31 -0800 2009 more...]]> 19089 0451529170 9780451529176 5830 757 4.00 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255790409m/19089.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19089.Middlemarch 5 3 false Wed Jun 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Feb 22 16:01:22 -0800 2009 Fri Jun 26 16:16:03 -0700 2009 more...]]> 19089 0451529170 9780451529176 5830 757 4.00 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255790409m/19089.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19089.Middlemarch 5 5 false Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Jun 04 19:00:16 -0700 2008 Wed Jun 04 19:44:57 -0700 2008 more...]]> 595001 0192834029 9780192834027 185 35 4.00 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/595001.Middlemarch 3 2 false Wed Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Wed May 23 18:00:11 -0700 2007 Wed May 23 18:14:47 -0700 2007
However. It did have some things to say, and on the scale of feminine writing of the time period, it ...more...]]> 19089 0451529170 9780451529176 5830 757 4.00 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255790409m/19089.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19089.Middlemarch 5 6 false Sun Feb 10 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Jun 07 06:26:08 -0700 2008 Sat Jun 07 06:26:08 -0700 2008
1) the characters drive the plot, not the other way around (Rowling?). Everything that happens in the book is a direct r...more...]]> 271276 0141439548 9780141439549 504 73 4.00 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173306085m/271276.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/271276.Middlemarch 5 4 false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Mon May 28 08:49:34 -0700 2007 Mon May 28 08:54:16 -0700 2007 more...]]> 19089 0451529170 9780451529176 5830 757 4.00 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255790409m/19089.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19089.Middlemarch 5 1 false Tue Apr 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 17 06:02:48 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 14 06:59:03 -0700 2009 more...]]> 19089 0451529170 9780451529176 5830 757 4.00 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255790409m/19089.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19089.Middlemarch 4 3 false Thu Sep 13 18:15:45 -0700 2007 Thu Sep 13 18:15:45 -0700 2007 271276 0141439548 9780141439549 504 73 4.00 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173306085m/271276.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/271276.Middlemarch 5 3 false Sat Jun 16 21:35:43 -0700 2007 Sat Jun 16 21:42:42 -0700 2007 19089 0451529170 9780451529176 5830 757 4.00 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255790409m/19089.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19089.Middlemarch 5 2 false Mon Apr 28 05:35:06 -0700 2008 Mon Apr 28 05:35:36 -0700 2008 271276 0141439548 9780141439549 504 73 4.00 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173306085m/271276.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/271276.Middlemarch 5 7 false Sun Apr 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Jan 11 23:43:32 -0800 2009 Mon Apr 13 23:16:56 -0700 2009 Middlemarch. I knew what he meant by that, but now I really know what he meant. This is one of the books that just gets it so com...more...]]> 19089 0451529170 9780451529176 5830 757 4.00 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255790409m/19089.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19089.Middlemarch 4 1 false Sat Sep 27 06:34:37 -0700 2008 Sat Sep 27 07:16:57 -0700 2008 more...]]> 19089 0451529170 9780451529176 5830 757 4.00 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255790409m/19089.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19089.Middlemarch 3 2 false Wed Apr 30 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Apr 23 19:43:38 -0700 2008 Sat May 03 10:51:58 -0700 2008 more...]]> 19089 0451529170 9780451529176 5830 757 4.00 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255790409m/19089.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19089.Middlemarch 4 1 false Wed Feb 13 13:48:03 -0800 2008 Wed Feb 13 13:48:09 -0800 2008
from amazon.comwonderful! Since then, I have seen the 1994 miniseries of this literary masterpiece, and I have become interested in comp...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=19093