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estherscholes 's review for:
Middlemarch
by George Eliot
I wish I could give it 3.5 stars as I’m wavering between 3 & 4. I had high expectations for this book from everything I’ve heard, and I’ve enjoyed George Eliot’s work in the past. I had to push my through it though, I’m afraid. As it’s about a town rather than a central character, it has many strands and although these were straightforward to follow, they also felt a bit tedious.
With some pre-20th century novels I love the descriptive, slow-paced language because it carries us to another time and place and gives brilliant insight that we might miss if we were skipping through. And with others, you have to discipline yourself to remember that they were written when life was lived at a slower pace, and books were released as periodicals, taking months for the full story to unfold. This felt like the latter.
It is a brilliant insight into the wider circumstances of the time though, set over the reign of George IV and William IV, and exploring political reform, agriculture, marriage & idealism. This does give us valuable historic perspective into the impact these things had in many ways on ordinary people.
With some pre-20th century novels I love the descriptive, slow-paced language because it carries us to another time and place and gives brilliant insight that we might miss if we were skipping through. And with others, you have to discipline yourself to remember that they were written when life was lived at a slower pace, and books were released as periodicals, taking months for the full story to unfold. This felt like the latter.
It is a brilliant insight into the wider circumstances of the time though, set over the reign of George IV and William IV, and exploring political reform, agriculture, marriage & idealism. This does give us valuable historic perspective into the impact these things had in many ways on ordinary people.