Goodness, Middlemarch is certainly one of the greatest English novels. I’ve just read it again and my perspective at 66 is much different than it was at 40.
If you have the time and inclination, read a bit about the Reform Act of 1832 and the ascension of William IV. It explains a lot of the book’s climate.
Given your willingness to tackle long books, please allow me to recommend Trollope’s The Way We Live Now. It’s an evisceration of London’s greed and artifice in the Victorian period.
They say we always fight the last war. I think we just fight one war, over and over.
Goodness, Middlemarch is certainly one of the greatest English novels. I’ve just read it again and my perspective at 66 is much different than it was at 40.
If you have the time and inclination, read a bit about the Reform Act of 1832 and the ascension of William IV. It explains a lot of the book’s climate.
Given your willingness to tackle long books, please allow me to recommend Trollope’s The Way We Live Now. It’s an evisceration of London’s greed and artifice in the Victorian period.
They say we always fight the last war. I think we just fight one war, over and over.