Word: middlemarch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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OLIVER! Dickens' novel might at first seem as likely a subject for a musical as Middlemarch, but Lionel Bart's score, Carol Reed's direction and John Box's breathtaking sets all combine to make what is easily the entertainment of the year...
...growing good of the world," George Eliot wrote in closing Middlemarch, her finest novel, "is partly dependent upon unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs." It was not only the motto for her books but, as Haight convincingly shows, an accurate summary of her own hidden life...
Geoffrey Tillotson said of Middlemarch that you could overrate it only "by saying that it was easily the best of the half-dozen best novels in the world." In biography, the same can be said of Walter Jackson's John Keats...