Parting Words: On Autumn
Sep 21st, 2008 · Host Andrea Seabrook offers parting words from novelist George Eliot: "Delicious autumn. My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the Earth seeking successive autumns"
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A Tale of Two Women, a Century Apart *
Jun 20th, 2008 · Deborah Weisgall's new novel The World Before Her interweaves the stories of famed writer George Eliot and fictional sculptress Caroline Spingold as they visit Venice, Italy, 100 years apart. Both artists struggle to balance their art with their yearning for love.
'Middlemarch': Juvenile Pleasure, Grown-Up Insight ****
Sep 7th, 2006 · Don't take Francine Prose's word about George Eliot's novel Middlemarch. Virginia Woolf called it "one of the few English novels written for grown-up people." Eliot's book, says Prose, offers a "dizzying tour past the landmarks of adulthood."
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