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Middlemarch

George Eliot

Start date: January 1, 2010

Finish date: January 31, 2010

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Jun 23, 2013 Sandra Heinzman rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: favorites, fiction, classics, book-club, literary-fiction

This was a chunkster book – over 60 hours on the Audible version. The narration by Juliet Stevenson was wonderful; I think she’s one of my most favorite narrators! I don’t know if I could have “read” the book due to the vocabulary and dialogue, but by listening to the Audible version I had no problems. I enjoyed the story, very much a “Pride and Prejudice” type of book. George Eliot’s writing is magnificent and linguistically superior to that which is written today, in my humble opinion. My favo ...more

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Apr 09, 2019 Melanie rated it it was ok

I have seen this book on many lists, and was really looking forward to reading it. Maybe because of all the hype I was disappointed. Dorothea Brooks Casaubon and Mary Garth were too perfect of characters. The roles of the virgin saints were already taken by Dorothea and Mary so that Rosamond had to be the "whore," and yet she wasn't one. She was a beautiful and raised to get the attention of all the men. She was the only one who when to finishing school, because her destiny was to be a wife and ...more

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