My junior year at Brown, I was so unhappy that I dropped out. In Arizona, I met a man; and I read Middlemarch. My junior year at Brown, I was so unhappy that I dropped out. The place had begun to ...

George Eliot’s wise, empathetic book speaks to us eloquently of our own times Middlemarch, George Eliot’s capacious imagining of the life of a Midlands town, is one of the masterpieces of 19th-century ...

Ask some readers their favorite book, and they’ll rattle off a list of five or 10 but cannot narrow their dedication to one book or author. Ask others, and they’ll respond without hesitation with ...

This week in the magazine, Rebecca Mead writes about George Eliot’s “Middlemarch.” (Subscribers can read the full text; others can buy access to the issue via the digital edition.) On the Book Bench, ...

“Middlemarch,” by George Eliot, has largely been immune to the kind of contemporary adaptation visited upon the works of other nineteenth-century writers. The novelist Kay Woodward has turned ...

You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you have an account. My Life In Middlemarch By Rebecca Mead Doubleday Canada/Bond Street Books 293 pp; $28 Enjoy the latest local, ...