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... Middlemarch shows more plainly than any of her novels , was a genius for analysis totally unlike his . Yet the almost inevitable reference to War and Peace does indicate the largeness of scale of Middlemarch . In it she creates a ...
... Middlemarch shows more plainly than any of her novels , was a genius for analysis totally unlike his . Yet the almost inevitable reference to War and Peace does indicate the largeness of scale of Middlemarch . In it she creates a ...
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... Middle- march is among other things a beautiful composition . And this despite the fact that it is built up of four ... Middlemarch George Eliot is investigating human aspirations , in particular the aspira- tions to serve and to be ...
... Middle- march is among other things a beautiful composition . And this despite the fact that it is built up of four ... Middlemarch George Eliot is investigating human aspirations , in particular the aspira- tions to serve and to be ...
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... Middlemarch itself , with its professional jealousies and intrigues , its political oppo- sitions , and , above all ... Middle- march , in between them , clustered about them , and clus- tered about the two other main plots is as large ...
... Middlemarch itself , with its professional jealousies and intrigues , its political oppo- sitions , and , above all ... Middle- march , in between them , clustered about them , and clus- tered about the two other main plots is as large ...
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THE BEGINNINGS | 3 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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