Most accounts of Middlemarch fail to capture the effect of the novel and fall into dull summaries of the complicated plot lines. Moved not by displays of sentiment, nor by overpowering intellectual content. Yet Middlemarch is put together so carefully, with such craft and emotional precision, that any intelligent, mature reader may be completely drawn into the fictional world and deeply moved. However, few, if any, work out happily in the main body of the story. Oh, yes, and also, working through all the complex intellectual narrative are several male-female relationships, which admittedly could account for some of the appeal. I mean, this is a novel that deals with issues of art, education reform, scholarly research, medical science and provincial British politics of the early nineteenth century-hardly the stuff of page-turning popularity. What's incredible about Middlemarch, George Eliot's masterwork, is how engrossing it is. CRITIQUE | THE TEXT At the middle of the world
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