Please note that these ratings solely represent the complete review 's biased interpretation and subjective opinion of the actual reviews and do not claim to accurately reflect or represent the views of the reviewers. (.) The book is like a portrait gallery.' - Saturday Review 'If Middlemarch is melancholy, it is due perhaps to its religion being all duty, without sufficient admixture of hope.

It is both a field of force, a trap like a spiderweb, and a pattern of invisible connecting links between humans meeting each other's eye.' - A.S.Byatt, The Guardian It is a metaphor of a web, or a tissue like those Bichat worked on. (.) All are held together by one of the most complicated and brilliantly worked metaphors anywhere in fiction. 'She not only used images drawn from the natural sciences, but saw the world of her novel as a microcosm in which all the parts related to the whole.(.) All these people, solid and vivid in their varying degrees, are members of a deeply human little world, the full reflection of whose antique image is the great merit of these volumes.' - Henry James, Galaxy (.) Middlemarch is a treasure-house of details, but it is an indifferent whole. ' Middlemarch is at once one of the strongest and one of the weakest of English novels.' Middlemarch is extraordinarily full and strong' - Sidney Colvin, Fortnightly Review.(.) An author whose novels it has really been a liberal education to read, one is more tempted to admire silently than to criticise at all.' - Arthur George Sedgwick, The Atlantic Monthly The plots are too numerous, the characters too multitudinous, and the whole too complicated. 'It would be a mere waste of time to go into a minute criticism of Middlemarch.The text of Middlemarch can also be found online.The Oxford World's Classics edition is edited by David Carroll and has an introduction by Felicia Bonaparte.

The Modern Library edition has an introduction by A.S.Byatt.

The Penguin Classics edition is edited by Rosemary Ashton.

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