Norton Critical Edition: This edition is the most scholarly of the options, in that it conveniently packages a scrupulous edition of the novel with a selection of critical essays about it. If that’s the kind of thing your book club likes, this is the edition for you.
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What is the best version of Middlemarch?
Norton Critical Edition: This edition is the most scholarly of the options, in that it conveniently packages a scrupulous edition of the novel with a selection of critical essays about it. If that’s the kind of thing your book club likes, this is the edition for you.
Is Middlemarch worth the read?
George Eliot’s Middlemarch regularly ranks as one of the greatest Victorian, greatest British, greatest English-language, or just plain greatest novels of all time. It seems to fare better on critic lists than reader lists, but if it’s a list of 100, Middlemarch is usually on there.
What should I read if I loved Middlemarch?
E M Forster, Oliver Stallybrass
- English Fiction.
- British Social Life And Customs.
- British Occupation Of India (1765 1947)
Is Middlemarch the greatest novel?
Middlemarch by George Eliot has been named the greatest British novel by global book critics outside the UK. BBC culture contributor Jane Ciabattari polled 82 book critics, “from Australia to Zimbabwe” – but none from the UK, in order to get a “global perspective” of the British novel.
Is Middlemarch the best English novel?
Middlemarch is No 1, according to a sometimes surprising top 100 ranking by books writers from around the world – excluding the UK.
Why is Middlemarch considered such a great novel?
It has George Eliot, it has a narrator whose voice and presence are as memorable as that of any character in English literature. Her pronouns pull the reader into the narrative, dispensing wisdom, and as often as not suggesting that our first reactions are shallow.
Why is Middlemarch so popular?
What is the easiest Jane Austen book to read?
Where to start with Jane Austen
- Pride and Prejudice (1813)
- Emma (1815)
- Northanger Abbey (1817)
- Sense and Sensibility (1811)
- Mansfield Park (1814)
- Persuasion (1818)
What was Jane Austen’s favorite book she wrote?
SAMUEL RICHARDSON. The History of Sir Charles Grandison, epistolary novel by Samuel Richardson, published in seven volumes in 1754. The work was his last completed novel, and it anticipated the novel of manners of such authors as Jane Austen. This is said to be one of Jane Austen’s favorite books.
Why is Middlemarch so good?
What were Jane Austen’s last words?
Some of the last recorded words of Jane’s are, “ God grant me patience, Pray for me oh Pray for me.” She had struggled somewhat during these last moments and had partly come off her bed.
Should I read Jane Eyre or Wuthering Heights?
Wuthering Heights gets my vote without a doubt. It is a much superior book to The Professor, which it was written to compete with. Jane Eyre is Charlotte’s second better attempt at novel writing. It just a standard romance.