"Don't take my word about Middlemarch. Take Virginia Woolf's. When I urge my friends to read Middlemarch, as I do all the time, I often explain that the reason I re-read it several summers ago was because I'd found, in Virginia Woolf's essay on George Eliot, her description of Middlemarch as 'the magnificent book which, with all its imperfections, is one of the few English novels written for grown-up people'" (more)
--Francine Prose, You Must Read This (NPR)
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