Middlemarch
Title: Middlemarch
Author: George Eliot (Pen name of Marian Evans)
Published Date: 1871 – 1872
Genre: Fiction, Classic, Romance
Format: eBook
Word Count: unknown
Pages: 904
Fog Index: unknown
Flesch Index: unknown
Flesch-Kincaid Index: unknown
First Sentence: “‘Since I can do no good because a woman, Reach constantly at something that is near it. – The Maid’s Tragedy: BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER.
Miss Brook had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress. Her hand and wrist were so finely formed that she could wear sleeves not less bare of style than those in which the Blessed Virgin appeared in Italian painters; and her profile as well as her stature and bearing seemed to gain the more dignity from her plain garments, which by the side of provincial fashion gave her the impressiveness of a fine quotation from the Bible, –or from one of our elder poets, — in a paragraph of today’s newspaper.
She was usually spoken of as being remarkably clever, but with the addition that her sister Celia had more common-sense. Nevertheless, Celia wore scarcely more trimmings; and it was only to close observers that her dress differed from her sister’s, and had a shade of coquetry in its arrangements; for Miss Brooke’s plain dressing was due to mixed conditions, in most of which her sister shared.”
2011 Book Count Total: 18
2011 Page Count Total: 7,974
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