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Middlemarch par George Eliot
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Middlemarch (édition 1977)

par George Eliot

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For this new edition, the text has been reset in a larger typeface for ease of reading."Backgrounds" helps readers understand Eliot's ideas on life and art with generous selections from her letters, journals, essays, and other fictional works."Contemporary Reviews" records the impressions of Sidney Colvin, Henry James, Joseph Jacobs, and Leslie Stephen."Recent Criticism" collects eleven essays-seven of them new to this edition-which center on the novel's major themes. Contributors include Mark Schorer, Jerome Beaty, Cherry Wilhelm, Robert Heilman, Lee R. Edwards, Alan Mintz, T. R. Wright, Matthew Rich, Alan Shelston, and Claudia Moscovici.A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are included.… (plus d'informations)
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Titre:Middlemarch
Auteurs:George Eliot
Info:W W Norton & Co Inc (Np) (1977), Edition: 1st, Paperback
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Mots-clés:classic, fiction, Serial Reader App, A Mind in the Light: Year 09, Ursa Minor Learning: Year 11, AMITL, UML

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I marked this Classic English Literature title 6 out of 10 stars or 12 out of 20 because I could not justify the means meeting the end.

This work is ponderous, heavy also prosaic.

Though whether you do find the hours to study this title you will be the more educated as an outcome.

I thought the characters and story were both at once didactic as well as majestic.

I must disagree with the author's general opinion on the field of medicine however yet

I found the use of the epigraph at the beginning of each chapter refreshing and effulgent.

"Pride helps us; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our own hurts --- not to hurt other people"
end of Chapter 6
no one anywhere was ever a child at any time I suppose.? I implore thus to differ ( )
  Arthur_Kennedy | Oct 2, 2022 |
This is a major 19th c. novel and should be on everyone's top 50 list. Having said that, yes the syntax is often grueling, and convoluted. Having reread this book several times, I'm surprised to say that this aspect doesn't get easier. Noticeable is that the writing seems to get most dense right at key points at key places. But on third or fourth reading, the intent clarifies.
Do read Middlemarch with this annotated version, although other annotated versions will do, but at any rate get some help. The back matter points the reader to the reform movements afoot at the time of the action, ca1830. The changes stirring in the political, medical, and religious ordering of the time are vitally important to the novel's setting, and inform the choices characters have to make, and the reader owes it to herself to explore those.
Chapter 81 is wonderful and so rewarding. One commentator calls it the emotional heart of the novel and indeed it is. Yet, after that the rest of the ending seems rather rushed, certainly in comparison to the pace of everything that had come before. I remembered some of the finer points of the plot resolution differently, but was probably conflating that with the way one of the film version's tied up some loose knots.
Even though several important characters are churchmen, students of theology or dissenters, their theology and beliefs seem to play little role in the their lives. It's the inner moral life, the character if you will, of the main characters, their struggle to stay true and honest to themselves and each other that is the main theme. The struggle to find their true calling and place in their world is key. The characters who set themselves against their own best selves, or worse, expend all their energy in concealing their flaws from themselves and the outside world, are doomed. Dorothea, Mr. Casaubon, Will Ladislaw, Rosamond Vincy are some of the great characters in all of literature.
Women's confined roles in the world of Middlemarch, and the concealment of their vitality, and dynamism is another fascinating theme. Time and again, it is they who chart the courses of the wavering and oft benighted menfolk, but do so in ways that keep the men unshaken in their view that it is they who are at the helm.
Once you settle in to the 19th century pace and syntax of the narration, you will trust the writer, and delight in her where so e'er she goes. At various times she breaks through and refers to herself in the first person, becoming yet another interesting character. But at all times it is she who is in absolute command of the tale, and never is there a false step, and indeed much humour and delight in the telling. ( )
  jblatchl | Jul 20, 2020 |
My desert island shelf contains all my favorite books which I have encountered since I began reading decades ago. I would want these books if I could have no others.

Middlemarch represents all the glory, science, religion, art, and culture that was the Victorian Age. I see it as a capstone of the 19th century. --JJM 10/10/05
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For this new edition, the text has been reset in a larger typeface for ease of reading."Backgrounds" helps readers understand Eliot's ideas on life and art with generous selections from her letters, journals, essays, and other fictional works."Contemporary Reviews" records the impressions of Sidney Colvin, Henry James, Joseph Jacobs, and Leslie Stephen."Recent Criticism" collects eleven essays-seven of them new to this edition-which center on the novel's major themes. Contributors include Mark Schorer, Jerome Beaty, Cherry Wilhelm, Robert Heilman, Lee R. Edwards, Alan Mintz, T. R. Wright, Matthew Rich, Alan Shelston, and Claudia Moscovici.A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are included.

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