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My Life in Middlemarch

by Rebecca Mead
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New York Times Bestseller
Named a Best Book of the Year by by The Globe and Mail, The Guardian, San Francisco Chronicle, Huffington Post, BookPage, Chicago Reader, Kirkus Review, Library Journal and more
“A poignant testimony to the abiding power of fiction.” —Joyce Carol Oates, The New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice)
New Yorker writer Rebecca Mead was a young woman in an English coastal town when she first read George Eliot’s Middlemarch, regarded by many as the greatest English novel. After gaining admission to Oxford and moving to the United States to become a journalist, through several love affairs, then marriage and family, Mead read and reread Middlemarch. In this wise and revealing work of biography, reporting, and memoir, she leads us into the life that the book made for her, as well as the many lives the novel has led since it was written.
My Life in Middlemarch takes the themes of Eliot’s masterpiece—the complexity of love, the meaning of marriage, the foundations of morality, and the drama of aspiration and failure—and brings them into our world. Offering both an involving reading of Eliot’s biography and an exploration of the way aspects of Mead’s life uncannily echo that of the author herself, My Life in Middlemarch is for every ardent lover of literature who cares about why we read books, and how they read us.

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  • English