The end of book two:
They had gone forth together into their life of sorrow, and they would never more see the sunshine undimmed by remembered cares. They had entered the thorny wilderness, and the golden gates of their childhood had forever closed behind them.
"Reader, the remaining two thirds of this book will be a stone cold bummer."
― big online yam retailer (ledge), Wednesday, 15 December 2021 12:02 (two years ago) link
Ladislaw is the least believable character, but I like him because Dorothea likes him.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 15 December 2021 13:22 (two years ago) link
I like Henry James on Middlemarch, he starts off all blowhard ('one of the strongest and one of the weakest of English novels') but ultimately he's more sympathetic than that suggests (lol at him of all people marking a dozen passages 'obscure' though).
https://www.complete-review.com/quarterly/vol3/issue2/jameshmm.htm
(maybe thread should be renamed Middlemarch and other works by George Eliot aka Mary Ann/Marian Evans)
― big online yam retailer (ledge), Wednesday, 15 December 2021 19:42 (two years ago) link
lol James was just expressing the anxiety of being influenced by a girl
― horseshoe, Wednesday, 15 December 2021 23:44 (two years ago) link
bbc adaptation of middlemarch is on iPlayer for the next 16 days
― koogs, Friday, 14 January 2022 18:26 (two years ago) link