Pleasantly surprised when I read the line, "...he was the son and heir, of nothing in particular." That is when I learned that Morrissey reads classics. Love Eliot and The Smiths.

Oh if I could only find a book club that reads books like Middlemarch....Great video by the way, loving this book.

I love Middlemarch by George Eliot: it made me fall in love with classics 💛

I'm a college junior studying Middlemarch now and this video has been super helpful!

I am just starting Middlemarch and stumbled upon this video. Thank you for this very sane introduction. I’m to chapter 12 and I’m loving it! I really like Fred. I hope he doesn’t do anything to make me change my mind! Best to you.

Thank you for your no spoiler video, I'm reading chapter 11, book 1 and now i have the encouragement i needed :)

Thanks Kathy for your enthusiastic introduction to the book and how to read it. Just started it - grappling with the language and sentence structure...

I’m just arriving at the transition from Miss Brooke to the Lydgate story. I appreciate finding your video at this point in my read.

Thank you! Thank you very much for the friendly tips and for the added inspiration to read this great book (Appreciate also that there are no "spoilers"!) 😊

Thank you so much for this! We’re starting this book in a few days and we’ll spend two months with it. Super excited for this one

One of my favourite novels. I’ve read it twice, thoroughly enjoyed it both times.

That was the best discussion of Middlemarch I have ever heard.

I believe that Jane Austen, herself, said that she could never write a Romance! If her books are reduced to mere love stories and stories about courtship we do ourselves a great disservice by missing the point totally.

Thank you for this! So helpful. Reading Middlemarch for fun and not with a bookclub, so was a bit daunted, but this has been very encouraging :)

That was helpful. Middlemarch is complex.

"Read on" as the words escalate and mount up and up exploring the archaeological underpinnings of people,""ham bolela, tum bolena". I confess I was attracted to Middlemarsh because of its psychological descriptions of the characters and yes the words and more words the way the sentences are arranged and the courtesy of language.

A quotation which I have never forgotten: " A woman's choice always means the only man she can get."

I absolutely love your videos.

Wonderful Channel! Immediately Subscribed Just a recommendation: Do a War And Peace Read Along or any read along for that matter!

Thank you, that was really helpful :)

Read Middlemarch in three days forty years ago for university-got it done but always felt annoyed by Dorothea and her decision to marry pasty Mr. Causaban.I just started listening to the audio version which is wonderful because there are a lot of nuances that I didn’t get when I just restarted the novel. I’m only in chapter three but I’ve overcome my dislike of Dorothea. I realize now that what choices did she have.. she was very smart and she wants to marry who she feels will enlighten her. Long way to go in this reading but much more sympathetic to her decisions. Very much enjoyed your introduction to this book. Even though I spent two years reading and loving the chunksters,that was forty years ago and it takes time to get back into the groove again. Time and patience.

Great review. I've got to get the Oxford edition!

Thank You

Middlemarch and War and Peace are the only two books that required me to make a character list.

I just stumbled on your channel and was thrilled. However, it appears you stopped it over a year ago and this is so disappointing. Most other channels that address reading the classics are by young women who talk very fast in high pitched voices and often fail to capture the essence of the book itself. I sincerely hope you'll continue on at some point.

Okay: page 1. I’m going in! 👍

Good novel l read in English language

Thank you,that helps me a lot💓💓

I'm trying to understand what the "count to three" line in the Prelude means. Can anybody help me?

Excellent video, but I'd suggest changing your recording space to one with better acoustics.

Thank you so much.

Great video

Our school has given only one month to read but this book would take a year for me to read. Can you give me tips to read fast

I’m reading this to impress a cute girl so. Wish me luck haha

Thank you! Which edition are you using/do you recommend!?

it would be better if you provide the list of ideas in the contents list.

Struggled through it.