Middlemarch – George Eliot ‘…Middlemarch looms above the mid-Victorian literary landscape like a cathedral of words in whose shadowy vastness its readers can find every kind of addictive discomfort, a sequence of raw truths: the loneliness of the disappointed failure, Dr Lydgate; the frustrations of his discontented wife; the humiliation of a good woman, Dorothea; the corrosive bitterness of Casaubon, and so on.’ Robert McCrum, Guardian extract, 100 Best Novels


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Add to Calendar Europe/Paris Middlemarch – George Eliot ‘…Middlemarch looms above the mid-Victorian literary landscape like a cathedral of words in whose shadowy vastness its readers can find every kind of addictive discomfort, a sequence of raw truths: the loneliness of the disappointed failure, Dr Lydgate; the frustrations of his discontented wife; the humiliation of a good woman, Dorothea; the corrosive bitterness of Casaubon, and so on.’ Robert McCrum, Guardian extract, 100 Best Novels

Middlemarch – George Eliot ‘…Middlemarch looms above the mid-Victorian literary landscape like a cathedral of words in whose shadowy vastness its readers can find every kind of addictive discomfort, a sequence of raw truths: the loneliness of the disappointed failure, Dr Lydgate; the frustrations of his discontented wife; the humiliation of a good woman, Dorothea; the corrosive bitterness of Casaubon, and so on.’ Robert McCrum, Guardian extract, 100 Best Novels. #Middlemarch #McCrum #Guardian #100BestNovels #libreria #libtriptych #robertmccrum

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Middlemarch – George Eliot ‘…Middlemarch looms above the mid-Victorian literary landscape like a cathedral of words in whose shadowy vastness its readers can find every kind of addictive discomfort, a sequence of raw truths: the loneliness of the disappointed failure, Dr Lydgate; the frustrations of his discontented wife; the humiliation of a good woman, Dorothea; the corrosive bitterness of Casaubon, and so on.’ Robert McCrum, Guardian extract, 100 Best Novels. #Middlemarch #McCrum #Guardian #100BestNovels #libreria #libtriptych #robertmccrum

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