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A review by kelly_inthe419
Middlemarch by George Eliot
5.0
Re-read Update: I’m thrilled to say I loved this book just as much 15 years after first reading it. This time I chose the audiobook narrated by the dynamic Juliet Stevenson. It definitely helped that I read it before because there are A Lot of characters. For that reason alone, I think I’d recommend a physical copy or ebook so it’s easier to keep everyone straight. This is probably one of my top 2 or 3 classics!
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I read this several years ago and it still resonates. The depiction of 17th Century life and the roles of women during that period were fascinating and revealing. Dorothea is still one of my favorite characters. And the ending provides an enduring quote:
“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."
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I read this several years ago and it still resonates. The depiction of 17th Century life and the roles of women during that period were fascinating and revealing. Dorothea is still one of my favorite characters. And the ending provides an enduring quote:
“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."