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Female Author (27) » 46 més Unread books (44) Folio Society (103) Favorite Long Books (44) Five star books (92) A Novel Cure (66) Women's reading list (11) Books Read in 2020 (411) Victorian Period (11) United Kingdom (21) 1,001 BYMRBYD Concensus (141) Authors from England (28) Books Read in 2019 (2,921) 1860s (2) Troublesome bodies (16) My TBR (32) Shelf 101 (48) Tagged 19th Century (35) Women's Stories (20) Best Revenge Stories (26) Love and Marriage (23) No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. After listening to this book, I can say that I didn't like it as much as Silas Marner. Maggie didn't come as close to me as Silas did. I ususally an able to place myself in the timeframe the book was written in (that is, turn off my 20th/21st century me while reading about girls and women living long ago, but in this particular case I had trouble with it. Maybe because the book was quite long (it could have done with at least 100 pages less, spread here and there over the narrative), but all in all it was okay. Only the ending was VERY disappointing. Not that I look for a happy ending in every book I read, but this one felt quite desperate. A finely detailed and carefully observed coming-of-age of a girl growing up in rural England in the 1830s. I found Maggie, the protagonist, a compelling and relatable character--in the early part of the book, when she was still a little kid, she often reminded me of other big-hearted and emotionally intense but sometimes-wayward (in the sense of not easily submitting to society's narrow expectations for her) literary heroines that I looked to for reassurance when I was going through my own growing up as that sort of girl. However, the sections of the book that were more focused on other members of her family did not hold my interest as well, and I would have been ok with a lot of them being trimmed and keeping the focus on Maggie. The startling ending was definitely one that will stay with me. Warning: this review contains spoilers This is an intense novel, emotionally. Maggie Tulliver is a passionate person. She is bright and fierce and a bit otherworldly, not caring what the general populace may think of her, but at the same time desperately seeking the approval of her brother and parents. Overall, this was an interesting read, although there were a few narrative-observation sections that I skimmed over. I was certainly heavily invested in the story, namely by yelling out loud at the book about that ***hole Stephen Guest, who deserved none of her pity. All he could think about was HIS needs and feelings, even though Maggie suffered far more than he did. I wished he’d fallen into a cesspit. Maggie’s brother, Tom, did not deserve her affection either; he was far too hard-hearted and unyielding, believing others instead of her first. So on that level this is a frustrating book, but it is told well and I am looking forward to reading more Eliot. Too bad Maggie didn't live in modern times where she could have got an education and had a real life instead of clinging to the hope that her brother Tom would love her unconditionally.
Pertany a aquestes col·leccions editorialsDoubleday Dolphin (C21) Everyman's Library (325) — 14 més Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction (Volume 9) Penguin English Library (EL120) Prisma Klassieken (54) The World's Classics (31) Contingut aThe Best-Known Novels of George Eliot: Adam Bede, The Mill on the Floss, Silas Marner, Romola de George Eliot ContéTé l'adaptacióAbreujat aTé una guia d'estudi per a estudiants
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My feelings toward the book are as varied as Maggie's and Tom's for one another; at times I really enjoyed its humorous depiction of stodgy, stuffy aunts and self-amused uncles, but by the end I became frustrated with the "Oh, I mustn't" "Oh, but you MUST" "Oh, but I MUSTN'T"-ness of it all. And the ending, although I understand the reasoning behind it, still felt abrupt and unsuited, and seemed (to me, at least) to make the previous plot elements pointless even while making its own sort of (overly-) dramatic Point. Also, I have a low tolerance for men being So Very Put Out because a woman doesn't behave the way he thinks she should, which happens on multiple occasions here. Gah. (