false 19089 156 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:7083|5:2848|4:2239|3:1385|2:419|1:192| 7083 28381 12579 1007 5 35 false 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...]]> 5 21 false 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...]]> 5 16 false 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...]]> 5 11 false false Wed Oct 10 21:13:14 -0700 2007 Wed Oct 10 21:13:14 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 8 false 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...]]> 5 3 false 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...]]> 5 5 false 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...]]> 5 6 false 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...]]> 5 4 false 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...]]> 5 1 false 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...]]> 4 3 false false Thu Sep 13 18:15:45 -0700 2007 Thu Sep 13 18:15:45 -0700 2007 5 3 false false Sat Jun 16 21:35:43 -0700 2007 Sat Jun 16 21:42:42 -0700 2007 5 2 false false Mon Apr 28 05:35:06 -0700 2008 Mon Apr 28 05:35:36 -0700 2008 5 6 false 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...]]> 4 1 false false Sat Sep 27 06:34:37 -0700 2008 Sat Sep 27 07:16:57 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 2 false 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...]]> 4 1 false 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...]]> 5 2 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2001 Thu Feb 07 19:47:20 -0800 2008 Thu Feb 07 19:57:18 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sat Oct 27 16:51:31 -0700 2007 Fri Nov 09 17:49:07 -0800 2007 more...]]> 5 2 false false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Mon Oct 22 19:21:07 -0700 2007 Tue Dec 11 13:11:36 -0800 2007 more...]]>