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Barty · 09-19-2013, 04:26 PM

I was reading an article on George Eliot

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blog...liot-ugly.html

and this caught my eyes:

"the author of “Middlemarch,” widely considered the greatest novel in the English language"

Really? I don't think I've ever heard that before.

I've heard. For example, that Ulysses is considered (by those who are asked to consider such thing) as the greatest novel of the 20th century. Or that Citizen Kane was for a long time considered the greatest movie ever made, but I didn't realize Middlemarch had such a high reputation.

09-19-2013, 04:26 PM	#1
Barty doofus Posts: 2,552 Karma: 13089041 Join Date: Sep 2010 Device: Kobo Libra 2, Kindle Voyage	Middlemarch the greatest English language novel? I was reading an article on George Eliot http://www.newyorker.com/online/blog...liot-ugly.html and this caught my eyes: "the author of “Middlemarch,” widely considered the greatest novel in the English language" Really? I don't think I've ever heard that before. I've heard. For example, that Ulysses is considered (by those who are asked to consider such thing) as the greatest novel of the 20th century. Or that Citizen Kane was for a long time considered the greatest movie ever made, but I didn't realize Middlemarch had such a high reputation.