Meg Wolitzer's latest novel is The Interestings. I have to admit that the first time I tried to read Middlemarch by George Eliot, I ended up putting it aside after only 20 pages. My teenage self, ...

I first walked down the streets of Middlemarch and met its vivid inhabitants when I was an earnest 20-year-old English major. For me, George Eliot’s classic novel was not an assigned reading in a ...

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George Eliot’s novel *Middlemarch*. This work, spanning two volumes and 1,416 pages in its paperback translation, is a true ...

When George Eliot agreed (reluctantly, by all accounts) to have her portrait made in 1865, she surely never imagined that her face would be forever linked with her published works. Yet today when we ...

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Period drama lovers, look no further, the BBC has another hidden gem among its iPlayer catalogue, ready for your viewing. The series is based on George Eliot's 1871 novel Middlemarch, which itself has ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through the links below." From a military family, the Hampshire-born, Cotswolds- and London-based author moved around in his ...