George Eliot

Middlemarch

Let’s hear it for Middlemarch. While Elizabeth Bennet gets all the kudos (the woman we all want to be), Dorothea Brooke is a worthy contender. I admire Elizabeth Bennet as much as the next Austen-lover, but Dorothea’s nuance, not to mention her more subtle character arc, deserves equal laudation. Middlemarch offers one of the most universal and forgiving portraits of human psychology in literature, and although written the mid-late nineteenth century, its observations on human behavior are just as relevant today.

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