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I read somewhere that the modern novel as we know it began with "Middlemarch." That feels right, despite its omniscient narrator and the differences between the social conventions of the day and our current times. As a novelist, I appreciated the way Eliot juggled so many characters and plot lines and wrapped them up in such a satisfying way. It's a big book, for sure, but so worth it. I can't imagine why I waited so long to read it.
Introduction and Notes by Doreen Roberts, Rutherford College, University of Kent at Canterbury.
Middlemarch is a complex tale of idealism, disillusion, profligacy, loyalty and frustrated love. This penetrating analysis of the life of an English provincial town during the time of social unrest prior to the Reform Bill of 1832 is told through the lives of Dorothea Brooke and Dr Tertius Lydgate and includes a host of other paradigm characters who illuminate the condition of English life in the mid-nineteenth century.
Henry James described Middlemarch as a 'treasurehouse of detail' while Virginia Woolf famously endorsed George Eliot's masterpiece…
Magical realism meets the magic of Christmas in this mix of Jewish, New Testament, and Santa stories–all reenacted in an urban psychiatric hospital!
On locked ward 5C4, Josh, a patient with many similarities to Jesus, is hospitalized concurrently with Nick, a patient with many similarities to Santa. The two argue…
We can’t all be lucky enough to take Ada Palmer’s history course in which the students restage the papal election of 1492, but we can all read her thought-provoking, witty, and thoroughly entertaining book. Filtered through the lens of Machiavelli and carefully chosen figures, famous and not, she explores the world in which they lived vs. the one imagined by future generations. Any book that features papal nicknames such as “Battle Pope One”, “Battle Pope Two”, and “King Log” is a winner to me.
The Renaissance is one of the most studied and celebrated eras of history. Spanning the end of the Middle Ages to the beginning of modernity, it has come to symbolise the transformative rebirth of knowledge, art, culture and political thought in Europe. And for the last two hundred years, historians have struggled to describe what makes this famous golden age unique.
In Inventing the Renaissance, acclaimed historian Ada Palmer provides a fresh perspective on what makes this epoch so captivating. Her witty and irreverent journey through the fantasies historians have constructed about the period show how its legend derives more…
