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One of the most accomplished and prominent novels of the Victorian era, "Middlemarch" is an unsurpassed portrait of nineteenth-century English provincial life. Dorothea Brooke is a young woman of fervent ideals who yearns to effect social change yet faces resistance from the society she inhabits. In this epic in a small landscape, Eliot's large cast of precisely delineated characters and the rich tapestry of their stories result in a wise, compassionate, and astute vision of human nature. As Virginia Woolf declared, George Eliot "was one of the first English novelists to discover that men and women think as well as feel, and the discovery was of great artistic moment."… (altro)
BookshelfMonstrosity: These 19th-century classics portray complex romantic relationships with vivid descriptions and a strong sense of place. With intricate, twisting plots, both offer their protagonists bleak outlooks that end in satisfying resolutions.
thesmellofbooks: The Getting of Wisdom is the rare sort of book that provokes deep self-reflection and a nudge in the direction of peace-making with self and life, and in this way brings to mind [[George Eliot]]'s [Middlemarch].
I am gobsmacked. The novel begins as an entertaining tale of a headstrong young Australian girl going to meet the world at boarding school. It gradually evolves into a subtle, simple, and stunningly real observation of the pressures of conformity and the intolerance of naïveté, which, when paired with a strong desire to be accepted, can lead to many and often rending responses in an imaginative young person.
Yet it is not a tragedy. I am left moved, affectionate, a little worried about the future, and yet joyful at the intactness of the protagonist's resilient soul.
Bravo, Ms Richardson.… (altro)
I classici anglosassoni hanno l'inquietante capacità di risucchiarmi nei loro bucolici mondi dalle 500 pagine in su, senza che io possa fare niente per difendermi.
Dorotea avrà una vita felice con il vecchio professore? Ma che tristezza è pensare che una ragazza intelligente e desiderosa di sapere doveva sposarsi per poter ambire a una vera istruzione? Riuscirà il giovane dottorino a farsi strada cone le sue idee così moderne sulla professione medica? Perché nessuno lancia Rosamund dalla finestra? Mary farà la governante tutta la vita?
I personaggi sono giovani, ambiziosi, hanno tutta la vita davanti a se, e l'autrice è molto brava a dipingere le loro difficoltà, i loro successi e fallimenti, perché la vita è amara e non sempre le aspettative vengono soddisfatte, anzi, a volte la sfortuna si nasconde in insignificanti coincidenze che possono distruggerci a nostra insaputa.
Come molti romanzi d'epoca, Middlemarch è lento, ponderoso, e a volte il narratore onniescente potrebbe astenersi dal sottolineare l'ovvio o non lasciarsi andare al predicozzo, ma i personaggi mi hanno lo stesso trascinata in questo mondo senza che ne accorgessi.
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Who that cares much to know the history of man, and how the mysterious mixture behaves under the varying experiments of Time, has not dwelt, at least briefly, on the life of Saint Theresa, has not smiled with some gentleness at the thought of the little girl waling forth one morning hand-in-hand with her still smaller brother, to go and seek martyrdom in the country of the Moors? (Prelude)
Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress.
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Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress.
Sane people did what their neighbors did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.
What we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
Riding was an indulgence which she allowed herself in spite of conscientious qualms; she felt that she enjoyed it in a pagan sensuous way, and always looked forward to renouncing it.
Some discouragement, some faintness of the heart at the new real future which replaces the imaginary, is not unusual, and we do not expect people to be deeply moved by what is not unusual. That element of tragedy which lies in the very fact of frequency, has not yet wrought itself into the coarse emotions of mankind.
At that time the opinion existed that it was beneath a gentleman to write legibly, or with a hand in the least suitable to a clerk. Fred wrote the letters demanded in a hand as gentlemanly as that of any viscount or bishop of the day; the vowels were all alike and the consonants only distinguishable as turning up or down, the strokes had a blotted solidity and the letters disdained to keep the line -- in short, it was a manuscript of that venerable kind easy to interpret when you know beforehand what the writer means.
Even while we are talking and meditating about the earth's orbit and the solar system, what we feel and adjust our movements to is the stable earth and the changing day.
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But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.
Here and there is born a Saint Theresa, foundress of nothing, whose loving heart-beats nod sobs after an unattained goodness tremble off and are dispersed among hindrances, instead of centring in some long-recognizable deed. (Prelude)
One of the most accomplished and prominent novels of the Victorian era, "Middlemarch" is an unsurpassed portrait of nineteenth-century English provincial life. Dorothea Brooke is a young woman of fervent ideals who yearns to effect social change yet faces resistance from the society she inhabits. In this epic in a small landscape, Eliot's large cast of precisely delineated characters and the rich tapestry of their stories result in a wise, compassionate, and astute vision of human nature. As Virginia Woolf declared, George Eliot "was one of the first English novelists to discover that men and women think as well as feel, and the discovery was of great artistic moment."
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Group Read: Middlemarch, Second Thread
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Dorotea avrà una vita felice con il vecchio professore? Ma che tristezza è pensare che una ragazza intelligente e desiderosa di sapere doveva sposarsi per poter ambire a una vera istruzione? Riuscirà il giovane dottorino a farsi strada cone le sue idee così moderne sulla professione medica? Perché nessuno lancia Rosamund dalla finestra? Mary farà la governante tutta la vita?
I personaggi sono giovani, ambiziosi, hanno tutta la vita davanti a se, e l'autrice è molto brava a dipingere le loro difficoltà, i loro successi e fallimenti, perché la vita è amara e non sempre le aspettative vengono soddisfatte, anzi, a volte la sfortuna si nasconde in insignificanti coincidenze che possono distruggerci a nostra insaputa.
Come molti romanzi d'epoca, Middlemarch è lento, ponderoso, e a volte il narratore onniescente potrebbe astenersi dal sottolineare l'ovvio o non lasciarsi andare al predicozzo, ma i personaggi mi hanno lo stesso trascinata in questo mondo senza che ne accorgessi.
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Libro del mese di Gennaio 2019
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