Word: middlemarch
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...that world would be quite fascinating.LD: I think the greatest novels make you all too conscious of people’s limitations and wounds. You know, I think the greatest novel in English is George Eliot’s ‘Middlemarch.’ It’s just a fantastic book, but it’s also quite a tragic book. Characters who are very intelligent and have high ideals and are good-looking and seem to have everything going right still make terrible, fatally wrong choices and end up damaged. It’s a very...
...seminal work, “Darwin’s Plots,” which will soon be republished in its third edition. “Ever since ‘Darwin’s Plots,’ everyone writes papers on Darwin and ‘Middlemarch,’” said Lesley A. Goodman. “It’s a rite of passage.” —Staff writer Alex M. McLeese can be reached at amcleese@fas.harvard.edu...
...Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain Hamlet by William Shakespeare The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust The Stories of Anton Chekhov by Anton Chekhov Middlemarch by George Eliot
...seen a lot of movies. I have the same problem with fiction. I can't read fiction anymore. I've reviewed over 1,000 novels, and I just burned out a long time ago. Occasionally I'll reread War and Peace or Anna Karenina or Middlemarch...
...white photo of junked automobiles on the cover; part of a faux Penguin Classics design for the entire book (closer inspection reveals the publisher to be “Polyhex Classics,” a Transformers reference, naturally). With these wrappings, the book could easily mingle unnoticed alongside _Middlemarch_ and _The Canterbury Tales_. Whether it deserves such illustrious company is somewhat questionable. Like the “grown-up” covers on _Harry Potter_ reprints in the UK, this tactic seems designed to allow the child within to enjoy himself without embarrassing the adult without. Perhaps it?...