
Also, there’s the nagging knowledge (but not guilt) that there’s a gaping hole from my English major days in regards to 19th century English novels. I downloaded an edition off Project Gutenberg and read it on my kindle.)Īfter hearing Jonathan Steinberg’s lecture on George Eliot and Middlemarch in episode 23 of the Great Courses’ series European History and European Lives: 1715 to 1914, I was curious about the novel. (I actually don’t know how long it really is. I’m not foolish enough to review an 800 page novel considered a classic and with so much attention already paid it. Low Res Scan: Middlemarch, George Eliot, 1871-1872.
