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Books by George Eliot mentioned on podcasts
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Middlemarch
Middlemarch by George Eliot is widely celebrated as a masterwork of Victorian literature, chronicling the lives and aspirations of provincial society in the fictional town of Middlemarch.
Recommended“Middlemarch is sort of my go-to on thinking about normal people being swept along by kind of the winds of change as a major technology revolution is taking place.”
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Daniel Deronda
Daniel Deronda by George Eliot is a sweeping Victorian novel that explores complex themes of identity, morality, and cultural heritage through the lives of its diverse characters.
Recommended“I am a huge fan although you know you're avoiding the elephant in the room which is that I did tell you to read Daniel D first and you ignored me”
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Silas Marner
Silas Marner by George Eliot is a classic Victorian novel about a reclusive weaver whose life is transformed by the arrival of an abandoned child.
Discussed“So, you want 100% of your audience to get the headline and laugh, but once you're down at paragraph eight, you can do an obscure Silas Marner reference that two people are going to get.”
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Adam Bede
Adam Bede by George Eliot is an acclaimed 1859 novel exploring moral responsibility, community dynamics, and social change in an English village at the turn of the nineteenth century.
Recommended“so I would say that the first book I recommend is by George Elliott so that's the gnome de plume of Maryann Evans and her most famous novel you've probably heard of it is middl March but her first novel was called Adam beid”
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On Reading, Writing and Living with Books
Discussed“um it's a book that's coming out from the Pushkin press which is a British press um and they've already come out in England and uh it's part of a series the book is called on Reading Writing and living with books”
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The Mill on the Floss
The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot is a classic Victorian novel that explores the tragic lives of siblings Tom and Maggie Tulliver in rural England.
Recommended“Yeah, well today we're talking about your incredible new memoir.”
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