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• Sophie and the Sibyl: A Victorian Romance by Patricia Duncker
  |summary=In Duncker's sixth novel, a playful Victorian pastiche, George Eliot's interactions with her German publisher and his feisty young wife provide ...on. Max, a young cad fond of casinos and brothels, has two tasks: ensuring Eliot's loyalty to their publishing house, and securing Countess Sophie von Hahn'
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• Worrying: A Literary and Cultural History by Francis O'Gorman
  ...otations and allusions, from Shakespeare to Hardy and George Eliot to T.S. Eliot; O'Gorman furnishes Worrying with a series of short close-readings, which a
  4 KB (674 words) - 09:44, 29 August 2020
• Proust Was a Neuroscientist by Jonah Lehrer
  |reviewer=George Care ...onship between recent neuroscientific discoveries and the novels of George Eliot, Gertrude Stein and Virginia Woolf. A scientist, who has researched with No
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• The Most Valuable Signed Books Ever Sold
  ...014. With a personal inscription to Mary Ann Evans, better known as George Eliot, the message dated December 1859, conveys his "high admiration and regard" '''Books By George Orwell'''
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• The Year of Reading Dangerously: How Fifty Great Books Saved My Life by Andy Miller
  ...longer, would It? Obviously it wouldn't stray into the chapter on George Eliot's Middlemarch, a book which I'd attempted to read about thirty years ago an
  4 KB (794 words) - 11:06, 12 August 2020
• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Patricia Fara
  PF: George Eliot's ''Middlemarch'', and yes, I've got a battered copy. Like Dorothea, I beli
  4 KB (736 words) - 09:32, 11 May 2018
• Why We Came to the City by Kristopher Jansma
  ...; his girlfriend Sara Sherman, a newspaper journalist; and Jacob Blaumann, George's former roommate, who works as an orderly at a mental hospital and also wr ...chapters with each one in turn: Irene, bisexual, is cagey about her past; George is a brooding romantic who proposes to Sara in a hot tub on the hotel roof;
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• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Sebastiana Randone
  ...ither Remembrance of things past by Marcel Proust or Middlemarch by George Eliot. ...many, and they are all dead. But difficult as this is, I would say George Eliot.
  6 KB (1,052 words) - 10:58, 10 November 2013
• The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy by Rachel Joyce
  ...enie Hennessy'' are the literary references. The title pays homage to T.S. Eliot's 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock'; there are at least two direct allu ...ing at the End of Life by Eric Lindner]]. We think you might also enjoy [[George's Grand Tour by Caroline Vermalle and Anna Aitken (translator)]].
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• Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays by Zadie Smith
  ...ged her ideas of what good writing was. The essay on Middlemarch by George Eliot also made me want to dig out my copy. Other writers discussed in this secti ...ns of essays with a literary flavour include [[The Brain-dead Megaphone by George Saunders]], and [[At Large And At Small by Anne Fadiman|At Large and At Sma
  4 KB (624 words) - 13:14, 6 March 2018
• Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes and Devon: A Complete Tour Guide and Companion by Brian W Pugh, Paul R Spiring and Sadru Bhanji
  ...ntry associations began in 1882 when he became a junior medical partner to George Turnavine Budd in Plymouth. Both men had studied medicine at university at ...ories regularly appeared was ''The Strand Magazine'', founded by publisher George Newnes. The latter had two holiday homes in Devon, a winter residence in T
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• Byron's Women by Alexander Larman
  |summary= George Gordon, Lord Byron, is remembered not only as one of the great poets of the George Gordon, who became the 6th Lord Byron at the age of ten in 1798 on the deat
  5 KB (840 words) - 08:26, 7 August 2020
• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Daniel Peltz
  ...about centring the story around the people of the time, similar to George Eliot's Romola. However my love for art and architecture of that time drew me tow
  7 KB (1,242 words) - 12:44, 29 May 2018
• Culture and Society 1780-1950 by Raymond Williams
  ...notions of what proper culture should be and the modernist notions of T.S Eliot. Williams looks at the criticism of the age, namely Shelley's famous essay ...is is because of my own literary interests. The later chapters such as one George Orwell I found considerably less interesting due to my lack of specialism i
  4 KB (603 words) - 07:59, 25 April 2018
• Fletcher Moss Talks To Bookbag About His Obsession With Age
  ...late to the party. Ian Fleming was 42 as well; Raymond Chandler 51. George Eliot belongs in this crew, as does (ahem) the Marquis de Sade.
  4 KB (632 words) - 13:40, 3 March 2018
• Greg Hickey Talks To Bookbag About The Old Guard of Dystopian Fiction
  Like Mary Anne Evans (a.k.a. George Eliot) before her, Burdekin used a male pseudonym to publish this alternative fut ...this book depicts a violent future world of environmental disasters. When George Orr discovers his dreams have the ability to alter reality, he must preserv
  5 KB (780 words) - 08:22, 10 February 2019
• The Escape by Adam Thirlwell
  ...ers Thomas Mann, Groucho Marx, Leo Tolstoy, William Shakespeare and George Eliot. Academically, this is clever but perhaps it accounts for the slightly cold
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• Dickens: A Memoir of Middle Age by Peter Ackroyd
  ...ence, including letters from fellow writers Carlyle, Thackeray, and George Eliot. Posterity, alas, is much the poorer. It was, says Ackroyd, as if in his
  5 KB (793 words) - 08:31, 9 April 2018
• The World of Vanity Fair - Bertram Fletcher Robinson by Paul R Spiring (Editor)
  ...ent and delineator of costume rather than of humanity'', and unlike George Eliot (who is not represented, by the way), did not ''pry into the great problems
  5 KB (755 words) - 10:57, 16 August 2020
• The Zhivago Affair: The Kremlin, the CIA, and the Battle over a Forbidden Book by Peter Finn and Petra Couvee
  ...hoosing recipients of the Nobel Prize declare him here to be the Soviet TS Eliot, but that's nothing like. So the reader probably has to stretch herself to ...ociety by infiltrating it with relevant texts, like ''Doctor Zhivago'' and George Orwell, was funded discretely and was an actual success, with the likes of
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