Middlemarch

a study of provincial life

888 pages

English language

Published 2008 by Knopf Pub. Group.

ISBN:
978-0-307-29156-1
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OCLC Number:
864519771

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5 stars (2 reviews)

It was George Eliot's ambition to create a world and portray a whole community--tradespeople, middle classes, country gentry--in the rising fictional provincial town of Middlemarch, circa 1830. Vast and crowded, rich in narrative irony and suspense, Middlemarch is richer still in character and in its sense of how individual destinies are shaped by and shape the community.

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Nederlands (English below)

Women were expected to have weak opinions; but the great safeguard of society and of domestic life was, that opinions were not acted on. Sane people did what their neighbours did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.



Als ik toch eens één boek mocht uitkiezen over sociale verwachtingen, schone schijn en ontluikende verlangens! In Middlemarch schetst George Eliot – echte naam: Mary Ann Evans, 1819-1880 – een haarscherp beeld van het Engelse provinciale leven tussen 1829 en 1832. Verschillende verhaallijnen lopen langs en door elkaar heen. Weliswaar zijn ze niet alle even intrigerend, maar tezamen vormen ze een innig beeld van het fictieve dorp Middlemarch.

She was usually spoken of as begin remarkably clever, but with the addition that her sister Celia had more common-sense.



De observaties van de eigengereide Dorothea Brooke zijn wat mij betreft een absoluut hoogtepunt …

Subjects

  • Historical fiction
  • English fiction
  • Roman anglais