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Robert Lin's avatar

Thank you, Sandhya, for sharing! My favorite quote of all time ("It's never too late to be what you might have been.") is from George Eliot and so your essay caught my eye. Middlemarch is obviously super-famous and I'm easily attracted by beautiful prose. What are some of the passages you consider most beautifully written from Middlemarch? Genuinely curious! Ty!

Sandhya Domah's avatar

Oh thank you! Love that quote :) I don't remember specific passages; I do remember going back to re-read sentences just to soak up the words and marvel at how they'd been stringed together to describe what was going on so beautifully. I'll have to re-read it and highlight some of them at some point! Have you read other George Eliot books?

Robert Lin's avatar

I have not, sadly. If I only read one Eliot book, do you recommend Middlemarch?

Sandhya Domah's avatar

neither have I! I think that would be the one to go for too though since it's so talked about. But I'd love to read other books by her.