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Middlemarch (Penguin Classics)

George Eliot's Victorian masterpiece: a magnificent portrait of a provincial town and its inhabitants George Eliot’s novel, Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life, explores a fictional nineteenth-century Midlands town in the midst of

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George Eliot (5)

“As Celia bent over the paper, Dorothea put her cheek against her sister's arm caressingly. Celia understood the action. Dorothea saw that she had been in the wrong, and Celia pardoned her. Since they could remember, there had been a mixture of criticism and awe in the attitude of Celia's mind toward…”

— George Eliot, amazon.com

Tagged: Sister Love, Sisters, critcism, Connection

“Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress.”

— George Eliot, amazon.com

Tagged: first lines of books

“You must love your work, and not be always looking over the edge of it, wanting your play to begin. And the other is, you must not be ashamed of your work, and think it would be more honorable to you to be doing something else. You must have a pride in your own work and in learning to do it well.”

— George Eliot, amazon.com

Tagged: Work, Career, Passion

“One can begin so many things with a new person! Even begin to be a better man.”

— George Eliot, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, Dating, Marriage

“It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.”

— George Eliot, amazon.com

Tagged: Intelligence, Learning, Knowledge