By: Rebecca Mead
Format: 423 pages, ebook
A New Yorkerwriter revisits the seminal book of her youth--Middlemarch--and fashions a singular, in…
Want to Read"Reading is sometimes thought of as a form of escapism, and it’s a common turn of phrase to speak of getting lost in a book. But a book can also be where one finds oneself; and when a reader is grasped and held by a book, reading does not feel like an escape from life so much as it feels like an urgent, crucial dimension of life itself."-Rebecca Mead, My Life in Middlemarch
"Eliot was scornful of idle women readers who imagined themselves the heroines of French novels, and of self-regarding folk who saw themselves in the most admirable character in a novel, and she hoped for more nuanced engagement from her own readers. Even so, all readers make books over in their own image, and according to their own experience."-Rebecca Mead, My Life in Middlemarch
"What's your favorite book?' is a question that is usually only asked by children and banking identity-verification services--and favorite isn't, anyway, the right word to describe the relationship a reader has with a particularly cherished book. Most serious readers can point to one book that has a place in their life like the one that 'Middlemarch' has in mine."-Rebecca Mead, My Life in Middlemarch
"Some very eminent critics writing in the decades immediately after the novel's publication felt that Eliot failed to maintain sufficient critical distance in her depiction of Ladislaw--that she fell in love with her own creation in a way that shows a lack of artistic control and is even unseemly, like a hoary movie director whose lens lingers too long on the young flesh of a favored actress. Lord David Cecil calls Ladislaw 'a schoolgirl's dream, and a vulgar one at that,' while Leslie Stephen complained 'Ladislaw is almost obtrusively a favorite with his creator,' and depreciated him as 'an amiable Bohemian."-Rebecca Mead, My Life in Middlemarch
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By: Maud Hart Lovelace , Vera Neville
Format: 448 pages, Paperback
Two of Maud Hart Lovelace's beloved Deep Valley books join the Harper Perennial Modern Classics lib… read more
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By: Maud Hart Lovelace , Vera Neville
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Welcome back to Deep Valley! Emily Webster, an orphan living with her grandfather, is not like the … read more
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"I'm finished with something, but I'm not beginning anything. That's wrong. When you finish something, you ought always to begin something new."-Maud Hart Lovelace, Emily of Deep Valley (Deep Valley, #2)
By: Anthony Trollope , Ruth Rendell
Format: 557 pages, Paperback
A recent cover reprint for this ISBN can be found here and an older one here. Son of a bankrupt … read more
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"Conduct! Is conduct everything? One may conduct oneself excellently, and yet break one's heart."-Anthony Trollope, Doctor Thorne (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #3)
"Mary, it must be remembered, was very nearly of the same age as Frank; but, as I and others have so often said before, 'Women grow on the sunny side of the wall."-Anthony Trollope, Doctor Thorne (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #3)
"Buying and selling is good and necessary; it is very necessary, and may, possibly, be very good; but it cannot be the noblest work of man; and let us hope that it may not in our time be esteemed the …"-Anthony Trollope, Doctor Thorne (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #3)
"Oh! do look at Miss Oriel's bonnet the next time you see her. I cannot understand why it should be so, but I am sure of this—no English fingers could put together such a bonnet as that; and I am near…"-Anthony Trollope, Doctor Thorne (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #3)
By: Sylvia Townsend Warner
Format: 310 pages, Paperback
An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here In memory of the wife who had once … read more
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"And here am I, she thought, fixed in the religious life like a candle on a spike. I consume, I burn away, always lighting the same corner, always beleaguered by the same shadows; and in the end I sha…"-Sylvia Townsend Warner, The Corner That Held Them
By: George Eliot
Format: 262 pages, Paperback
Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe is the third novel by George Eliot, published in 1861. An outwa… read more
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"Love once, love always"-George Eliot, Silas Marner
"Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand."-George Eliot, Silas Marner
"Hurt, he'll never be hurt--he's made to hurt other people."-George Eliot, Silas Marner
"Perfect love has a breath of poetry which can exalt the relations of the least-instructed human beings."-George Eliot, Silas Marner
By: Nathaniel Philbrick
Format: 131 pages, Hardcover
Moby-Dick is perhaps the greatest of the Great American Novels, yet its length and esoteric subject… read more
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"As Starbuck discovers, simply being a good guy with a positive worldview is not enough to stop a force of nature like Ahab, who feeds on the fears and hatreds in us all."-Nathaniel Philbrick, Why Read Moby-Dick?
"This is where Melville is perhaps the most profound in his portrait of Ahab as the demagogue and dictator. In the end, even the fiercest of tyrants is done in, not by his own sad, used-up self, but b…"-Nathaniel Philbrick, Why Read Moby-Dick?
"To be in the presence of a great leader is to know a blighted soul who has managed to make the darkness work for him. Ishmael says it best: "For all men tragically great are made so through a certain…"-Nathaniel Philbrick, Why Read Moby-Dick?
"To write timelessly about the here and now, a writer must approach the present indirectly. The story has to be about more than it at first seems. Shakespeare used the historical sources of his plays …"-Nathaniel Philbrick, Why Read Moby-Dick?
By: George Eliot , Lynda Mugglestone
Format: 545 pages, Paperback
When the young nobleman Harold Transome returns to England from the colonies with a self-made fortu… read more
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"To the receptive soul the river of life pauseth not, nor is diminished."-George Eliot, Felix Holt: The Radical
"There is no private life which is not determined by a wider public life."-George Eliot, Felix Holt: The Radical
"Ignorance is not so damnable as humbug; but when it prescribes pills it may happen to do more harm."-George Eliot, Felix Holt: The Radical
"There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere whisper in the roar of hurrying existence. There are glances of hatred that stab and raise no cry o…"-George Eliot, Felix Holt: The Radical
By: Richard Brown , Tasha Tudor
Format: 134 pages, Hardcover
Tasha Tudor has written and illustrated more than seventy-five beloved children's books since her f… read more
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"It's exciting to see things coming up again, plants that you've had twenty or thirty years. It's like seeing an old friend."-Richard Brown, The Private World of Tasha Tudor
"You should see my corgis at sunset in the snow. It's their finest hour. About five o'clock they glow like copper. Then they come in and lie in front of the fire like a string of sausages."-Richard Brown, The Private World of Tasha Tudor
"What really got me thinking about illustrating children's books was I discovered Hugh Thompson's illustrations for The Vicar of Wakefield in my mother's library and I looked at it and said, 'That's w…"-Richard Brown, The Private World of Tasha Tudor
"Daffodils are an optimistic flower, and foolproof. You know what Shakespeare said: "Daffodils, That come before the swallow dares, and take The winds of March with beauty." ...I plant them in big clu…"-Richard Brown, The Private World of Tasha Tudor
By: George Eliot , A.S. Byatt
Format: 579 pages, Paperback
'If life had no love in it, what else was there for Maggie?' Brought up at Dorlcote Mill, Maggie… read more
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"Don't judge a book by its cover"-George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss
"Don't judge a book by its cover."-George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss
"Poetry and art and knowledge are sacred and pure."-George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss
"I desire no future that will break the ties of the past."-George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss
By: George Eliot , Joanna Trollope , Hugh Osborne
Format: 624 pages, Paperback
The story of a beautiful country girl's seduction by the local squire and its bitter, tragic sequel… read more
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"She hates everything that is not what she longs for."-George Eliot, Adam Bede
"Timid people always reek their peevishness on the gentle."-George Eliot, Adam Bede
"Our deeds determine us, as long as we determine our deeds"-George Eliot, Adam Bede
"Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds."-George Eliot, Adam Bede
By: Tania James
Format: 225 pages, Hardcover
From the critically acclaimed author of Atlas of Unknowns and Aerogrammes , a tour de force set in … read more
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By: Rebecca Mead
Format: 293 pages, Hardcover
Rebecca Mead was a young woman in an English coastal town when she first read George Eliot's Middle… read more
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"Reading is sometimes thought of as a form of escapism, and it’s a common turn of phrase to speak of getting lost in a book. But a book can also be where one finds oneself; and when a reader is graspe…"-Rebecca Mead, My Life in Middlemarch
"Eliot was scornful of idle women readers who imagined themselves the heroines of French novels, and of self-regarding folk who saw themselves in the most admirable character in a novel, and she hoped…"-Rebecca Mead, My Life in Middlemarch
"What's your favorite book?' is a question that is usually only asked by children and banking identity-verification services--and favorite isn't, anyway, the right word to describe the relationship a …"-Rebecca Mead, My Life in Middlemarch
"Some very eminent critics writing in the decades immediately after the novel's publication felt that Eliot failed to maintain sufficient critical distance in her depiction of Ladislaw--that she fell …"-Rebecca Mead, My Life in Middlemarch
By: Maud Hart Lovelace , Vera Neville
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Betsy's childhood dream is finally coming true: she's off to Europe just like she and Tacy planned … read more
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"Betsy. The great war is on but I hope ours is over. Please come home. Joe."-Maud Hart Lovelace, Betsy and the Great World (Betsy-Tacy, #9)
"Was life always like that? she wondered. A game of hide and seek in which you only occasionally found the person you wanted to be?"-Maud Hart Lovelace, Betsy and the Great World (Betsy-Tacy, #9)
By: Henry James , Patricia Crick
Format: 797 pages, Paperback
When Isabel Archer, a beautiful, spirited American, is brought to Europe by her wealthy Aunt Touche… read more
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"She has only one fault; too many ideas."-Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
"If one is strong, one loves the more strongly."-Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
"It's not my fate to give up--I know it can't be."-Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
"The finer natures were those that shone at the larger times."-Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
By: Michel Faber , George Eliot
Format: 912 pages, Mass Market Paperback
"People are almost always better than their neighbours think they are" George Eliot’s most ambit… read more
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"After all, the true seeing is within."-Michel Faber, Middlemarch
"I protest against any absolute conclusion."-Michel Faber, Middlemarch
"I shall do everything it becomes me to do."-Michel Faber, Middlemarch
"What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?"-Michel Faber, Middlemarch
By: Elizabeth von Arnim
Format: 207 pages, Paperback
An alternative cover for this ISBN can be found here. "Elizabeth and Her German Garden," a novel… read more
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"I shall not let myself be frightened away by the sarcasm of owls."-Elizabeth von Arnim, Elizabeth and Her German Garden
"We are none of us ever thankful enough, and yet we each get so much, so very much, more than we deserve."-Elizabeth von Arnim, Elizabeth and Her German Garden
", and there were days last winter when I danced for sheer joy out in my frost-bound garden, in spite of my years and children."-Elizabeth von Arnim, Elizabeth and Her German Garden
"Oh, I thought of calling it Journeyings in Germany. It sounds well, and would be correct. Or Jottings from German Journeyings--I haven't quite decided yet..."-Elizabeth von Arnim, Elizabeth and Her German Garden
By: Daniel Mendelsohn
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
In this rich and riveting narrative, a writer's search for the truth behind his family's tragic pas… read more
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"At night, I think about these things. I'm pleased with what I know, but now I think much more about everything I could have known, which was so much more than anything I can learn now and which now i…"-Daniel Mendelsohn, The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million
"...I like to see things through the lens of Greek tragedy, which teaches us, among other things, that real tragedy is never a straightforward confrontation between Good and Evil, but is rather much m…"-Daniel Mendelsohn, The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million
"...that the holocaust is so big, the scale of it is so gigantic, so enormous that it becomes easy to think of it as something mechanical. Anonymous. But everything that happened, happened because som…"-Daniel Mendelsohn, The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million
"And so the picture that I showed her that Sunday, a picture I'd seen countless times since I was a boy, brought home to me for the first time the strangeness of my relationship to the people I was in…"-Daniel Mendelsohn, The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million
By: Anthony Trollope , David Skilton
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
The Warden centers on Mr. Harding, a clergyman of great personal integrity who is nevertheless in p… read more
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"It is much less difficult for the sufferer to be generous than for the oppressor."-Anthony Trollope, The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1)
"... In what I do I may appear to be interfering with you, and I hope you will forgive me for doing so."-Anthony Trollope, The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1)
"He never quarreled with his wife, but he never talked to her;--he never had time to talk, he was so taken up with speaking."-Anthony Trollope, The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1)
"They say that faint heart never won fair lady. It is amazing to me how fair ladies are won, so faint are often men's hearts!"-Anthony Trollope, The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1)
By: Clare Carlisle
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A startling new portrait of George Eliot, the beloved novelist and a rare philosophical mind who ex… read more
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By: Benjamin E. Park
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
The first major history of Mormonism in a decade, drawing on newly available sources to reveal a pr… read more
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By: Joanna Biggs
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2023 by the New York Times , The Week , Vulture , Elle, and The Mi… read more
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"The wound my unsuspecting heart formerly received is not healed,"-Joanna Biggs, A Life of One's Own: Nine Women Writers Begin Again
By: Laura Cumming
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
New York Times bestselling author Laura Cumming “combines first-rate art history with deeply felt m… read more
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"It is such a long journey out, this one, from where we came; this life, our life, the journey between the first and last shores."-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
"We see pictures in time and place. We cannot see them otherwise. They are fragments of our lives, moments of existence that may be as unremarkable as rain or as startling as a clap of thunder. Whatev…"-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
"I cannot get enough of Dutch art. You can turn to this other world -- and it is a picture world as no other, a whole society visualised through time and place, seasons and generations, moment by mome…"-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
"Fabritius is thirty-two, and I was the same age when I first wrote about his self-portrait. He and I remain the same age whenever we meet. He is dead, I am still alive, so the existential maths [sic]…"-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
By: Yiyun Li
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A new collection—about loss, alienation, aging, and the strangeness of contemporary life—by the awa… read more
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By: Olivia Laing
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In 2020, Olivia Laing began to restore a walled garden in Suffolk, an overgrown Eden of unusual pla… read more
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"One of the operations by which capitalism perpetuates itself is displacement, the determined and absolute separation of the product from the site of production, so that when we buy petrol or peat fro…"-Olivia Laing, The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise
By: Andrew O'Hagan
Format: 608 pages, Hardcover
A biting portrait of British class, politics, and money told through five interconnected families a… read more
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By: Katherine Rundell
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From standout scholar Katherine Rundell, Super-Infinite presents a sparkling and very modern biogra… read more
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"To adore and to devour and to be devoured is its own kind of focus: a gasp of a different kind of oxygen."-Katherine Rundell, Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne
By: Jenn Shapland
Format: 289 pages, Kindle Edition
From a National Book Award finalist and a powerful literary mind, an incisive new work examining ca… read more
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By: Amina Cain
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
A virtuosic meditation on literature and life in the tradition of Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s … read more
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"For me, fiction is a space of plainness and excess."-Amina Cain, A Horse at Night: On Writing
"Female solitude is weighted with a particular power in literature."-Amina Cain, A Horse at Night: On Writing
"I want to leave a chain of images that remain in the reader's mind. I want to write what heightened experience feels like."-Amina Cain, A Horse at Night: On Writing
"Perhaps solitude is a practice as much as an instinct, its pleasures very much contextual. Sometimes being alone is terrible."-Amina Cain, A Horse at Night: On Writing
By: Shaun Bythell
Format: 328 pages, Hardcover
"Do you have a list of your books, or do I just have to stare at them?" Shaun Bythell is the own… read more
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"Money can't buy happiness, BUT it can buy books (which is basically the same thing)."-Shaun Bythell, Confessions of a Bookseller (Diary of a Bookseller, #2)
"There's a difference between a book being too expensive and a customer being too cheap."-Shaun Bythell, Confessions of a Bookseller (Diary of a Bookseller, #2)
"On the news this morning was a story about four men who have been abducted from a bookshop in Hong Kong for disseminating literature critical of the Chinese regime. Bookselling can be a perilous busi…"-Shaun Bythell, Confessions of a Bookseller (Diary of a Bookseller, #2)
"Коли я виставляв ціни на видання, до мене підійшов старший чоловік і попросив: - Не допоможете мені знайти книжки із самодопомоги? Певний, що він не помітив у цій фразі суперечності, я спитав, яка са…"-Shaun Bythell, Confessions of a Bookseller (Diary of a Bookseller, #2)
By: D.E. Stevenson
Format: 239 pages, Kindle Edition
A son makes a devastating choice. Franz von Heiden, son of a Nazi official and an English mother… read more
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By: Leslie Jamison
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Recovering and The Empathy Exams comes the riveti… read more
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