Middlemarch in Ultimate Popsugar Reading Challenge

May 29, 2007 Jessica Haider rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: 1000_books, classics, 1001-books, fiction, favorites

I remember buying this book at a bookstore in the Copley Place mall in Boston shortly within a year or 2 of finishing college. I was burnt out from engineering school and looking to read some classics and other highly recommended books from some book list I came across.

I really didn't know much about Middlemarch before picking it up. I ended up loving it.

Dorothea Brooke is a woman trying to make a mark in the world in a time where society didn't really approve of woman doing such things. She's ...more

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Apr 25, 2017 Nadine in NY Jones rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction, audio, romance, classic, era-victorian, 1001-books, era-early-mid-1800s

She did not know then that it was love who had come to her briefly, as in a dream before awaking, with the hues of morning on his wings. That it was love to whom she was sobbing her farewell, as his image was banished by the blameless rigor of irresistible day. She only felt that there was something irrevocably amiss and lost in her lot, and her thoughts about the future were the more readily shaped into resolve. Ardent souls, ready to construct their coming lives, are apt to commit themselve

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Feb 18, 2010 Lydia Presley rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Shelves: 2010, historic-fiction, classics, fiction

Finally. Finally after four weeks of reading I finish this novel.

So, in summary, this is what I gathered from the book. This is a story about three couples - Fred and Mary, Dorothea and Ladislaw and Rosamund and Lyndgate. These six people live in a town called Middlemarch - and Eliot does not build a vague fictional town here, she details every last little thing down to pages upon pages of motives behind elections, decisions made and fainting spells. Every bit of gossip is laid out and every sub ...more

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