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Alright, so I knew Middlemarch would be great. After all, Harold Bloom cites it (along with Bleak House) as "the canonical novel" and Virginia Woolf called it "magnificent." However, I did not expect to finish this 853 page behemoth in seven days, and I certainly did not expect the writing to be quite so lovely. I was expecting writing similar to Austen or the Bronte sisters; what I got was Tolstoy in English, with just a dash of Proust.
It's hard to write this review without comparing Eliot ...more
Alright, so I knew Middlemarch would be great. After all, Harold Bloom cites it (along with Bleak House) as "the canonical novel" and Virginia Woolf called it "magnificent." However, I did not expect to finish this 853 page behemoth in seven days, and I certainly did not expect the writing to be quite so lovely. I was expecting writing similar to Austen or the Bronte sisters; what I got was Tolstoy in English, with just a dash of Proust.
It's hard to write this review without comparing Eliot ...more
Oct 12, 2009
Mounir
marked it as to-read
Sep 20, 2011
Patrick Collins
marked it as on-the-shelf-waiting-to-be-read
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May 27, 2012
Michaela
marked it as to-read
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Sep 04, 2017
Idit
rated it
it was amazing
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