> Michael Bloomberg now owns George Eliot's house. @Rebeccamead_NYC [https://twitter.com/Rebeccamead_NYC] draws lessons for the ex-mayor from "Middlemarch." http://t.co/KXFj9gSVzd — TNY Culture Desk (@CultureDesk) July 29, 2015 [https://twitter.com/CultureDesk/status/626442090663165952] The article at the link contains this…
http://classicpenguin.tumblr.com/post/111872903679/for-the-young-doctor-about-to-burn-out Middlemarch makes an unexpected, but apprciated, appearance.…
> "I do not feel very confident that I can make anything satisfactory of Middlemarch." - George Eliot writing to John Blackwood, 11 Sept. 1869 — Oxford Classics (@OWC_Oxford) July 31, 2014 [https://twitter.com/OWC_Oxford/statuses/494832485780705280]…
After discussing Anna Karenina, War and Peace, Madame Bovary, and Half of a Yellow Sun, Smith writes [http://www.oprah.com/oprahsbookclub/Author-Zadie-Smith-What-to-Read-This-Summer?utm_campaign=SharedPost&utm_medium=Email&utm_source=TumblriOS] > The epic inaction of our summer holidays is perhaps what makes them suitable for the…