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Middlemarch is a rich and rewarding novel, but it is also much more than that. It also chronicles very accurately a time of great changes in English rural (or as Eliot calls it, Provincial) life. Eliot's meticulous research assures the reader that the events she moves her characters through give a detailed picture of significant developments in society, politics, and medicine during the early 1830s.
Middlemarch is not an easy book to read. Eliot is of the most intellectually capable writers that ...more
Middlemarch is not an easy book to read. Eliot is of the most intellectually capable writers that ...more
A great book, but at 850 pages in my edition, it was a long read, as I read several books concurrently, but well worth the effort.
Quite hard to get through. Didn't help I didn't have a lot of time to sit and read
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