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Mona Simpson has posted her last installment of our Summer Reading of Middlemarch, but we are still talking in the comments so please join in, especially if you are catching up!
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Middlemarch, Adieu!
A good-bye and till-soon from Ann, Book Post‘s editor
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Ann Kjellberg
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Middlemarch: Finale
A great reading experience can be like a love affair or a journey—it lives on in memory and in our lives, it touches the way we understand our own…
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Mona Simpson
115
Middlemarch: Book Seven
Our characters' needs become more urgent, and more at cross purposes with each other
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Mona Simpson
37
Middlemarch: Book Six
In Book Six Eliot uses gossip to hurtle the plot forward, inspiring fear and wild risks in her characters.
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Mona Simpson
88
Middlemarch: Book Five
We’ve noticed that Eliot sees pride as the most dangerous human quality. In Book 5 she doesn’t limit her attack to foolish pride; she takes on ambition…
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Mona Simpson
35
Middlemarch: Book Four
In Book Four, we see the great interconnectedness of life in Middlemarch and life at the old country estates. The social world, with all its complexity…
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Mona Simpson
42
Middlemarch: Book Three
Imagine the pressure of falling in love, becoming engaged, and then marrying in a matter of weeks. So much anticipating happiness hinging on the single…
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Mona Simpson
48
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