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read reader · Middlemarch ✓ Hardcover ½ [BOOKS] ⚡ Middlemarch ✯ George Eliot – Dogsalonbristol.co.uk George Eliot's most ambitious novel is a masterly evocation of diverse lives and changing fortunes in a provincial community Peopling its landscape are Dorothea Brooke a young idealist whose search fo George EAs their stories interweave George Eliot creates a richly nuanced and moving drama hailed by Virginia Woolf as 'one of the few English novels written for adult people'This edition is part of the Penguin Classics Clothbound series designed by Coralie Bickford Smi Take this for granted Middlemarch will haunt your every waking hour for the duration you spend within its fictional provincial boundaries At extremely odd moments during a day you will be possessed by a fierce urge to open the book and dwell over pages you read last night in an effort to clarify newly arisen doubts 'What did Will mean by that? What on earth is this much talked about Reform Bill? What will happen to poor Lydgate? Is Dorothea just symbolic or realistic?'And failure to act on your impulses will give rise to irritation The world all around you will cease to matter and you will be forced to perform everyday tasks on autopilot mode partly zombified completely at the mercy of this wonderful wonderful book Even hours after you turn over the last page Middlemarchers and their manifold conundrums and self delusions will maintain their firm grasp on your consciousness What I mean by these not at all far fetched generalizations is that Middlemarch is engaging suspenseful and readable Profoundly so Despite its dense outlay of character arcs dovetailing into the politics of the community subplots jostling against each other for primacy and the reader's attention vivid commentary by an omniscient narrator who interjects often to shape a reader's perception and the painstakingly detailed inner lives of its zealous hero and heroine struggling to hold on to their lofty ideals in the face of sobering reality and suffocating marriages everything moves at a breakneck speed I never knew when I ran out of pages to tear through There are few happy coincidences here and certainly no deus ex machinas to bestow easy resolution on conflicts Characters do not stumble upon gentrified fulfillment accidentally those persecuted because of their 'lower birth' do not magically acuire status and wealth thereby proving beyond doubt that Mary Ann Evans meant to contravene the most fundamental of tropes created by her celebrated contemporaries Instead they wrestle with their own conscience hypocrisies prejudices mortal desires and fatalistic judgments The day to day grind deepens their spiritual crisis derails their noble mission of being a part however insignificant of the progress story of the world at large makes them realize the futility of the individual's struggle against the forces that govern society Some emerge victorious able to cling to the passions and ardors that drive them ahead in life despite the inclemency of their circumstances While others flail and flounder succumbing to the tyranny of material wants and demanding selfish spouses If that's not bitter reality served up on a plate I don't know what isIf I am asked to pick one flaw with the plot and characters I must confess I had considered withholding a star initially because of the book's treatment of Dorothea and the infuriating Ladislaw Dorothea arc which made me want to uit reading out of pure frustration Evans' fascination with subjecting every character's mental makeup to her trenchant irony seemed to expire every time her beloved heroine came into the picture Freuent comparisons with the Virgin Mary and St Theresa and references to her ueenly grace made me skeptical about her credibility as a character of flesh and blood in a narrative otherwise populated with believable fallible men and women Is she merely symbolic then of a life dominated by a 'soul hunger' completely immune to the mundane concerns of uotidian living? Why must her womanhood be almost deified and worshipped? But thankfully Dorothea is salvaged and humanized in the end when she lets her own romantic passions overpower her altruistic zest the growing good of the world is partly dependent on 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 Many may disapprove of the choice but if I had to name one book very similar to 'Middlemarch' in thematic content and in terms of a multiple perspective narrative structure set against a modern backdrop then Rowling's The Casual Vacancy comes to mind In fact it is hard not to figure out the connection after having read both books If the slew of unfavorable reviews on GR and elsewhere nipped your interest in the bud I urge you to give it a shot Unworthy of literary immortality as it maybe perhaps it still offers an intricately detailed portrait of a small town and how individual choices shape the destiny of a society Of course it is no Middlemarch as no book ever will be but it is where Rowling shows her true calibre as a novelist And really it is not as horrid as most reviewers made it out to be Far from it

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George Eliot's most ambitious novel is a masterly evocation of diverse lives and changing fortunes in a provincial community Peopling its landscape are Dorothea Brooke a young idealist whose search for intellectual fulfillment leads her into a disastrous marriage Oh the slow burn of geniusI always tread lightly when it comes to using the word genius but there is no way around it hereIt took me a good 200 pages to fully get into the novel and its ornate 19th century turn of phrase but very uickly I was so completely spellbound by its intelligence and wisdom that I couldn't put it downGeorge Eliot's astonishing authorial voice is something to behold It takes the misadventures of a handful of characters and peels their layers one by one with so much subtlety that you often have to reread a sentence several times to fully grasp the keenness of its observationsThe entire novel feels like a giant lens zooming in and out of human follies with such gusto and empathy that you cannot help but feel privileged to witness the inner workings of people's thoughts and reactions Not only does Middlemarch make you ponder many aspects of our motivations desires aspirations limitations ideals dreams behavior and inclinations but it keeps you on the edge of your seat like a ferocious psychological thrillerThe end will leave you teetering on the brink revisiting all of your personal deep seated assumptions about people what is a successful life what is a good marriage how you measure goodness and your impact on others' livesA work of vertiginous beauty

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MiddlemarchTo the pedantic scholar Casaubon; the charming but tactless Dr Lydgate whose marriage to the spendthrift beauty Rosamund and pioneering medical methods threaten to undermine his career; and the religious hypocrite Bulstrode hiding scandalous crimes from his past This is the best book ever written and why would you even think that? Who cares? It seems like a particularly male thing to do this categorizing this ranking When George Eliot introduces Casaubon a compulsive categorizer who has accomplished nothing of value it feels like than a character It's a warning She keeps uoting Eve from Paradise Lost who was impressed by a man and look how that turned out Eliot's talking about women following men and their dumb arcane knowledge Dorothea wants to be part of something grand and the very idea is patriarchal She ends up lost in a tomb This is Casaubon the archetypal mansplainer so many facts so little truthSo she leads with this grand male ambition The Key To All Mythologies but she's heading somewhere else Here's the uote that she's spending 800 pages aiming forThe growing good of the world is partly dependent on 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 tombsAnd you're like oh fuck yeah right? Unhistoric acts are my whole jam This is the truth most of us will be regular We can hope to find love or at least acceptance We hope that the cumulative effect of very many of us trying to do or less the right thing will be that the world is or less nice A few of us will create great art or live great lives Very many of us will wish we had George Eliot thinks we should settle downPeople are surprised when they find out that I read mostly classics What for? they ask It sounds boring What are you getting out of this? At its worst it's some kind of Casaubonesue desire to know everything about something I hope there's some kind of cumulative effect of empathy and perspective But this here Middlemarch is the only book I've ever read that changed the way I look at my entire life It teaches me to settle down I'm in the process of living faithfully a hidden life here So perhaps are you Coming to terms with that isn't just a lesson it's the lesson right? It's the whole game It's either this or buy a convertible and re pierce my ear I read classics in hopes of finding something this good againOkay so the whole game is in here and the funny thing about this being the best book ever is that for the best book ever it is fucking boring There's this whole part like the middle third or so that's frankly deadly It happens about a hundred pages in; you've been having a grand old time with Dorothea and her shitty old husband who can't even fuck right and all of a sudden Eliot starts introducing new people It's not that they're not great well some of them aren't I'm sorry but Mary and Fred are boring But Rosamond She's so awful She's terrific and she very nearly runs off with the book Casaubon is a bad man; Rosamond is a bad woman and her damage to Lydgate is much worseRosamond is what Eliot started with in fact; that was supposed to be the book She was to be a response to the realist landmark Madame Bovary Eliot decided she needed a counterweight in Dorothea and then I don't know what all else happened That climactic confrontation between Dorothea and Rosamond for one thing what a scene right? Eliot is one of the most compassionate writers and here's where she puts her money down There's this complicated structure she builds pretty Ladislaw the banker Bulstrode an old scandal some surprisingly Victorian plot twists given that Middlemarch is itself a realist landmark Rather talk about doctors than you needed A lot of this stuff is boringThere's a famous uote from Virginia Woolf who called Middlemarch one of the few English novels written for grown up people She called it that despite all its imperfections by the way she thought it was boring too But that's a grown up message that bit about the tombs So here we are right? Grown ups living faithfully our hidden lives hoping to find peace with our unremarkableness Here's the peace You gotta make it through a boring part in the middle but at the end you'll look back and find it was the best thing ever

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