Middlemarch in 100 books to read before you die

Jun 26, 2021 Laura (Reading is a Doing Word) rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

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Middlemarch - REVIEW

It’s so hard to review this book, I don’t know what I expected from Middlemarch, but I got more than I ever could have wished!
I scribbled some notes when I finished reading and I’ll try and make them coherent here:

GREATNESS
The aspiration to greatness - personal, spiritual or professional - is seen in many guises. Dorothea strives for a great, good work, Lydgate seeks professional greatness in his medical theories, Rosamond wants great social status, Brooke seeks political suc ...more

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Jan 13, 2012 Janet rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

I listened to the unabridged audio version of this book and I'm glad that I did. I lived with this book for about 1 month and became immersed in the progress of the tale and the lives of the characters. Subtitled, "A Study in Provincial Life", it has multiple sub plots and a great number of characters popluating and working in the small community of Middlemarch. It is a story about love and marriage, Victorian conventions, social and policical reform, and trying and failing at life's challenges. ...more

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Apr 03, 2012 Gayathri rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

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"For there is no creature whose inward being is so strong that it is not greatly determined by what lies outside it. A new Theresa will hardly have the opportunity of reforming a conventual life, any more than a new Antigone will spend her heroic piety in daring all for the sake of a brother's burial: the medium in which their ardent deeds took shape is forever gone. But we insignificant people with our daily words and acts are preparing the lives of many Dorotheas, some of which may present a f ...more

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