The little white attic

Actually reading Tolstoy at the moment, but I'd like to write a few more words about Middlemarch . It's a great book, definitely gre...

Yesterday I was working on a post called "Some wonderful letters by George Sand", then I felt it might have been a bit long, and d...

1/ I'm reading a selection of critical essays on Middlemarch , edited by Patrick Swinden, in the Casebook Series . 1 critic complains of...

Back to Middlemarch . Because 15 posts isn't enough.  1/ Reviews and blog posts about Middlemarch often ignore the Mary- Fred plot. It...

The Madwoman in the Attic by Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar . In chapter 14 "George Eliot as the Angel of Destruction", they ...

This film might be a bore for people who like a film based on a novel to be a work of art on its own terms, but for people who demand a fait...

What George Eliot aims to say, to teach, through Middlemarch can be broken down to several moral messages such as:  - Think carefully an...

The other day I wrote that Gwendolen Harleth's basically Rosamond Vincy under different circumstances. Now I'm revising that view....

The line "What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?" in Middlemarch reminds me of the line ...

Chapter 66. Lydgate is in trouble. He has difficulties at work, his hospital doesn't get much support, people go against him only becaus...