Woven around these two tumultuous relationships are a host of Middlemarchers searching for happiness in the midst of everyday life. It is also the story of Tertius Lydgate, an ambitious young doctor who marries an attractive, self-centered woman whose refusal to face financial realities threatens to heap emotional misery on top of their financial difficulties. Middlemarch is the story of Dorothea Brooke, a young woman who marries a much older man under the mistaken impression he will enlarge her world by including her in his intellectual pursuits. Regardless, I didn't expect to enjoy reading it any more than I would have had I identified the novel from that long ago syllabus.Īnd ripped through this tale of a bucolic English village in less than a week, sandwiching reading between my fulltime job and binge-watching two episodes of Better Call Saul every night. Eight hundred pages seems overly long for an undergraduate Brit Lit survey class. I'm not sure Middlemarch is actually the George Eliot book I was supposed to read in college. Group Reads - Literature: Middlemarch: Book IĬonnecticut Nutmeggers: Middlemarch (Spoilers Here)Ĭonnecticut Nutmeggers: Middlemarch (SPOILER FREE)Ī Book You Were Supposed To Read In School But Didn’t The Green Dragon: Middlemarch: The Chatty Bits (Spoilers Go Here)ħ5 Books Challenge for 2014: Middlemarch Group Read 2014Ģ014 Category Challenge: Middlemarch group readħ5 Books Challenge for 2010: Group Read: Middlemarch, Third Threadħ5 Books Challenge for 2010: Group Read: Middlemarchġ001 Books to read before you die: ***Group Read: Middlemarch Books 7-8ġ001 Books to read before you die: ***Group Read: Middlemarch Books 5-6ġ001 Books to read before you die: ***Group Read: Middlemarch Books 3-4ġ001 Books to read before you die: ***Group Read: Middlemarch Prelude & Books 1-2 Club Read 2022: Victorian Readalong Q4: Middlemarch by George Eliotħ5 Books Challenge for 2010: Group Read: Middlemarch, Second Thread
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