Word: eliot
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life. By GEORGE ELIOT, Author of "Adam Bede," "Romola," etc. New York: Harper and Brothers...
...last, and perhaps the best of George Eliot's novels has been received with much praise, - as much, we think, as it deserves. Not that we fail to appreciate the great merits of the book; it shows a wonderful depth of thought and no little knowledge of human nature. The delineation of character - and noble character, too - is very distinct. The tenderness and generosity of Dorothea, and the manly unselfishness of Caleb Garth are already dear to many readers. The book has, too, a moral strength which, in these days of loose writing and looser thinking, is particularly...