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 Middlemarch advertises itself as “A Study of Provincial Life,” but it has a great deal in it that might be of interest to Americans who just right now have some extra time on their ...

The last two words in the title of composer Allen Shearer's new opera "Middlemarch in Spring," which got an engaging world premiere from Composers, Inc. over the weekend, are aptly chosen. They signal ...

In the age of the TV series and the box set, theatre’s claim on literary adaptations is surely becoming questionable. Why, when the realist minutiae of the 19 th-century novel can be lovingly crafted ...

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 ...

“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 ...

If Michael Bloomberg were a figure from a nineteenth-century novel, it would be one written by Anthony Trollope, whose depictions of the uneasy intersection of class, money, and politics—especially in ...

The rest of the world has spoken. And they’ve decided, in their wisdom, that Middlemarch is the greatest British novel of all time. BBC Culture contributor Jane Ciabattari asked 82 international ...

Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Many writers include the figure of an artist somewhere in their work. The presence of this artist will always have a sinister echo, ...

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