George Eliot (1819-1880)，
On this day in 1871, volume 1 of MIDDLEMARCH by George Eliot was published.
"What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?"
--from MIDDLEMARCH
One of the most accomplished and prominent novels of the Victorian era, Middlemarch is an unsurpassed portrait of nineteenth-century English provincial life. Dorothea Brooke is a young woman of fervent ideals who yearns to effect social change yet faces resistance from the society she inhabits. In this epic in a small landscape, Eliot's large cast of precisely delineated characters and the rich tapestry of their stories result in a wise, compassionate, and astute vision of human nature. As Virginia Woolf declared, George Eliot "was one of the first English novelists to discover that men and women think as well as feel, and the discovery was of great artistic moment." Introduction by E. S. Shaffer. READ an excerpt here:http://knopfdoubleday.com/book/45823/middlemarch/
Silas Marner (織工馬南傳)， 梁實秋譯，
On this day in 1871, volume 1 of MIDDLEMARCH by George Eliot was published.
"What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?"
--from MIDDLEMARCH
One of the most accomplished and prominent novels of the Victorian era, Middlemarch is an unsurpassed portrait of nineteenth-century English provincial life. Dorothea Brooke is a young woman of fervent ideals who yearns to effect social change yet faces resistance from the society she inhabits. In this epic in a small landscape, Eliot's large cast of precisely delineated characters and the rich tapestry of their stories result in a wise, compassionate, and astute vision of human nature. As Virginia Woolf declared, George Eliot "was one of the first English novelists to discover that men and women think as well as feel, and the discovery was of great artistic moment." Introduction by E. S. Shaffer. READ an excerpt here:http://knopfdoubleday.com/book/45823/middlemarch/
Silas Marner (織工馬南傳)， 梁實秋譯，
“How can a writer make goodness interesting? George Eliot tried to do so by examining redemption in Silas Marner … But where are the unheroic, sane, consistent, quiet goodnesses? As literature thrives on conflict, the idea of a sequestered, sanguine goodness might seem impossible.”
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