Middlemarch is a complex tale of idealism, disillusion, profligacy, loyalty and frustrated love. This penetrating analysis of the life of an English provincial town during the time of social unrest prior to the Reform Bill of 1832 is told through the lives of Dorothea Brooke and Dr Tertius Lydgate and includes a host of other paradigm characters who illuminate the condition of English life in the mid-nineteenth century. Henry James described Middlemarch as a 'treasurehouse of detail' while Virginia Woolf famously endorsed George Eliot's masterpiece as 'one of the few English novels written for grown-up people.
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乔治·爱略特(一八一九—一八八○),十九世纪著名英国女小说家,本名玛利安·伊凡斯,成名作为《教区生活小景》,其他代表作有《亚当·比德》、《弗洛斯河上的磨坊》,《织工马南》、《米德尔马奇》等。
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但是如果一个女孩子对婚姻大事有自己的一套想法,把它完全从属于崇高热烈的生活目标,而且这种憧憬主要是靠它自身的火焰点燃的,既不考虑妆奁的多少,也不注重金银器皿的款式,甚至青春少妇的体面和婚后生活的甜蜜也不在话下,对这样一个女孩子的理想,恐怕世上是没有一个人——在蒂普顿一带当然更不会有——会给予同情和谅解的。
“我不要求嫁一个跟我年龄相仿的人,”多萝西娅说,态度严肃而坚决,“我希望嫁的丈夫,是在见解和一切知识上都超过我的人。”
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