Chapter 29
For my part I am very sorry for him... Mr. Casaubon had an intense consciousness within him, and was spiritually a-hungered like the rest of us.Read in Books4Free →
Sympathy for Casaubon
From Middlemarch by George Eliot
Famous for its narrative generosity, the novel pauses to grant Casaubon his own suffering interiority.
Chapter 42
Casaubon walking in the yew-tree avenue, contemplating his death and his unfinished work — one of the most quietly devastating chapters.
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