Chapter 20
Marriage, which has been the bourne of so many narratives, is still a great beginning.Read in Books4Free →
Marriage as the Novel's Central Subject
From Middlemarch by George Eliot
Middlemarch is structurally a study of marriages — Dorothea/Casaubon, Lydgate/Rosamond, Fred/Mary, Bulstrode/Harriet — and the disenchantments of intimacy.
Chapter 28
Dorothea returns from Rome to a wintry Lowick: 'the very furniture in the room seemed to have shrunk since she saw it before.'
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Mrs. Bulstrode's loyalty: 'Look up, Nicholas.' One of the great marital moments in fiction.
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