Look, Middlemarch is a great novel. It complexly mediates class conflict, the commodification of all life, emerging ideological structures in Victorian capitalism. I just personally think it’s more impressive when a novel does that through a story about a guy who hates a weird fish.
Nate Wolff
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Editorial: George Eliot’s masterpiece of provincial life still has much to teach us about sympathy and tolerance
