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I love this novel's timelessness. Seemingly every page has a memorable line such as this: "Rosamond, accustomed from her childhood to an extravagant household, thought that good housekeeping consisted simply in ordering the best of everything..."
Reading what Eliot wrote more than 150 years ago endlessly amused me as I matched the follies of her world to the pettiness, mindlessness, and garishness of today's world.
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 as 'one…
It is April 1st, 2038. Day 60 of China's blockade of the rebel island of Taiwan.
The US government has agreed to provide Taiwan with a weapons system so advanced that it can disrupt the balance of power in the region. But what pilot would be crazy enough to run…
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…
