Pride and Paragon: Listening to George Eliot’s “Middlemarch”
Laurie Winer reviews the Audible.com version of George Eliot's "Middlemarch."
Laurie Winer reviews the Audible.com version of George Eliot's "Middlemarch."
FOR A LONG TIME I refused the temptation of the audiobook, believing that any sentence by Austen, Proust or Flaubert must be processed through the...
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She had the devotion to an ideal shared by geniuses and sociopaths.
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