Middlemarch Volume I EasyRead EditionReadHowYouWant.com, 2006 - 468 pagini The most extraordinary masterpiece written from personal experience. "Middlemarch" is a deep psychological observation of human nature which revolves around the issues of love, jealousy, and obligation. Eliot's feminist views are apparent through the novel in which she stresses the fact that women should control their own lives. A highly recommended classic! |
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CHAPTER VI | 69 |
CHAPTER VII | 86 |
CHAPTER VIII | 92 |
CHAPTER IX | 100 |
CHAPTER X | 116 |
CHAPTER XI | 133 |
CHAPTER XII | 148 |
CHAPTER XVI | 222 |
CHAPTER XVII | 241 |
CHAPTER XVIII | 254 |
CHAPTER XIX | 270 |
CHAPTER XX | 276 |
CHAPTER XXI | 292 |
CHAPTER XXII | 304 |
BOOK III | 325 |
BOOK II | 175 |
CHAPTER XIII | 176 |
CHAPTER XIV | 189 |
CHAPTER XV | 204 |
CHAPTER XXIII | 326 |
CHAPTER XXIV | 342 |
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Pagina 359 - Love seeketh not Itself to please, Nor for itself hath any care, But for another gives its ease, And builds a Heaven in Hell's despair." So sung a little Clod of Clay Trodden with the cattle's feet, But a Pebble of the brook Warbled out these metres meet: "Love seeketh only Self to please, To bind another to Its delight, Joys in another's loss of ease, And builds a Hell in Heaven's despite.
Pagina 389 - The distant flat shrank in uniform whiteness and low-hanging uniformity of cloud. The very furniture in the room seemed to have shrunk since she saw it before: the stag in the tapestry looked more like a ghost in his ghostly blue-green world; the volumes of polite literature in the bookcase looked more like immovable imitations of books.
Pagina 298 - he answered, promptly. " And therefore it is a pity that it should be thrown away, as so much English scholarship is, for want of knowing what is being done by the rest of the world. If Mr. Casaubon read German he would save himself a great deal of trouble." " I do not understand you, " said Dorothea, startled and anxious.
Pagina 279 - That element of tragedy which lies in the very fact of frequency, has not yet wrought itself into the coarse emotion of mankind; and perhaps our frames could hardly bear much of it. If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and We should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence. As it is, the quickest of us walk about well wadded with stupidity.
Pagina 119 - ... we all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them.
Pagina 302 - To-day she had begun to see that she had been under a wild illusion in expecting a response to her feeling from Mr. Casaubon, and she had felt the waking of a presentiment that there might be a sad consciousness in his life which made as great a need on his side as on her own. We are all of us born in moral stupidity, taking the world as an udder to feed our supreme selves...
Pagina 88 - Perhaps even Hebrew might be necessary at least the alphabet and a few roots - in order to arrive at the core of things, and judge soundly on the social duties of the Christian.