My Life in Middlemarch
By: Rebecca Mead
3.63
Format: 293 pages, Hardcover
Rebecca Mead was a young woman in an English coastal town when she first read George Eliot's Middle…
Want to Read $ 4.99"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
"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
"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
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1. Thimble Summer
By: Elizabeth Enright
3.75
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
When Garnet finds a silver thimble in the sand by the river, she is sure it’s magical. But is it ma… read more
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- classics
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"Garnet was very happy. She was so happy, for no especial reason, that she felt as if she must move carefully so she wouldn’t jar or shake the feeling of happiness. She descended from the roof cautiou…"-Elizabeth Enright, Thimble Summer
2. The Hothouse by the East River
By: Muriel Spark
3.46
Format: 139 pages, Mass Market Paperback
He is standing in the middle of the room. She is sitting by the window, staring out over the East R… read more
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- literature
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"This deadly body of mine can dance, too."-Muriel Spark, The Hothouse by the East River
"Being dead's a drug', he says, 'you'll get hooked on it."-Muriel Spark, The Hothouse by the East River
"Back in 1944 when people were normal and there was a world war on,' says Paul to his son, 'it was a serious thing to be a spy."-Muriel Spark, The Hothouse by the East River
3. The Blush
By: Elizabeth Taylor , Paul Bailey
3.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
Amongst the characters in this collection of short stories are the upright Mrs Allen, who unwitting… read more
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- classics
4. A View of the Harbour
By: Sarah Waters , Elizabeth Taylor
4.14
Format: None pages, Paperback
'Jane Austen, Elizabeth Taylor, Barbara Pym, Elizabeth Bowen - soul-sisters all' Anne Tyler In the … read more
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- classics
5. The Corner That Held Them
By: Sylvia Townsend Warner
3.94
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
6. Silas Marner
By: George Eliot
3.68
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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- literature
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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
7. The Mill on the Floss
By: George Eliot , A.S. Byatt
3.83
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
8. Adam Bede
By: George Eliot , Joanna Trollope , Hugh Osborne
3.82
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
9. My Life in Middlemarch
By: Rebecca Mead
3.63
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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- classics
- biography
- memoir
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- writing
- books about books
- literary criticism
"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
10. Middlemarch
By: Michel Faber , George Eliot
4.02
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 shall do everything it becomes me to do."-Michel Faber, Middlemarch
"I protest against any absolute conclusion."-Michel Faber, Middlemarch
"What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?"-Michel Faber, Middlemarch
11. His Whole Life
By: Elizabeth Hay
4.09
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Starting with something as simple as a boy who wants a dog, His Whole Lifetakes us into a richly in… read more
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12. The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1)
By: Anthony Trollope , David Skilton
3.75
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)
13. The Marriage Question: George Eliot's Double Life
By: Clare Carlisle
4.13
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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- literary criticism
14. American Zion: A New History of Mormonism
By: Benjamin E. Park
4.21
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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15. A Life of One's Own: Nine Women Writers Begin Again
By: Joanna Biggs
4.01
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
16. Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
By: Laura Cumming
4.19
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
17. Wednesday's Child: Stories
By: Yiyun Li
3.75
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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18. The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise
By: Olivia Laing
4.07
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
19. Ducks, Newburyport
By: Lucy Ellmann
3.97
Format: 1022 pages, Paperback
LATTICING one cherry pie after another, an Ohio housewife tries to bridge the gaps between reality … read more
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"Italians answer the phone, “Pronto,"-Lucy Ellmann, Ducks, Newburyport
"I think that Inuit duck is at the Peabody, Bringing Up Baby, “Ducky! Ducky!"-Lucy Ellmann, Ducks, Newburyport
"...the fact that there’s a lot you have to blank out if you want to get through life..."-Lucy Ellmann, Ducks, Newburyport
"the fact that you’ll never know what sort of person you might have been if you’d read different stuff"-Lucy Ellmann, Ducks, Newburyport
20. Wild: Tales from Early Medieval Britain
By: Amy Jeffs
3.89
Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition
By the bestselling author of Storyland.Sheer cliffs, salt spray, explosive sea spume, thunderous cl… read more
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21. Traveling: On the Path of Joni Mitchell
By: Ann Powers
3.51
Format: 443 pages, Kindle Edition
For decades Joni Mitchell’s life and music have enraptured listeners. One of the most celebrated ar… read more
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