Middlemarch in Around the World in 80 Books

Aug 31, 2018 Rachel rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction, classics, feminism, 1001-books-to-read-before-you-die, hardbooks

I wasn't really planning on rereading this except it's in the running for the best book in my group's Round Robin. I had liked it before but wasn't really super excited about it. One day I was fishing around for something to read on my breaks at work and decided I might as well so I downloaded a free copy and got started. I quickly realized how much I was enjoying it and when I found it in one on my favorite editions (MacMillons) I restarted it so I could underline all the amazing parts. It was ...more

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May 16, 2019 superawesomekt rated it it was amazing

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This was the first long (500+ pages) English literary classic I read on my own. I read it as part of an intensive author study the summer before my high school senior year. We were required to read 3 novels by a selected author, my choice being George Eliot. Naturally, I read the shorter novels, Silas Marner and Adam Bede (the poor man's Tess), first.

I knew from its beginning, "[Dorothea] Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress" that I would love this b ...more

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Apr 25, 2017 Nadine in NY Jones rated it liked it

Shelves: era-victorian, audio, fiction, romance, classic, 1001-books, era-early-mid-1800s

She did not know then that it was love who had come to her briefly, as in a dream before awaking, with the hues of morning on his wings. That it was love to whom she was sobbing her farewell, as his image was banished by the blameless rigor of irresistible day. She only felt that there was something irrevocably amiss and lost in her lot, and her thoughts about the future were the more readily shaped into resolve. Ardent souls, ready to construct their coming lives, are apt to commit themselve

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Jan 03, 2019 Jen rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Finishing this book is giving me a huge sense of accomplishment. While I love a classic British novel and in the end I really liked this story, it is dense and easy to put down and if not for book club I'm not sure I would have finished it. I gave it four stars though because while I said it was easy to put down, I always enjoyed it while I was reading it. First there is the unexpected humor and I often laughed out loud while I read this book. Then there is the scathing commentary on British soc ...more

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