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I hear you on nothing contemporary. The Victorians were made for a pandemic. In the past few years I’ve worked my way through Trollope’s two great series, recently finishing up with The Last Chronicle of Barset and I’m bereft. Hence Hardy. But what I really want to do is start all over again with the Parliamentary novels. While I like Trollope’s stand-alones, they just don’t have the richness of the two worlds of Parliament and Barsetshire. And in addition, I have to confess to recent rereads of both Pride and Prejudice and Emma and I thought those were two books I’d never look at again, as I’ve pretty much got them memorized.
And George Eliot is also on my “time to go back to her” list. Middlemarch of course and my other favorite, the under-appreciated (IMO) Daniel Deronda.
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I got as far as
The Eustace Diamonds, which I enjoyed immensely, but hit a brick wall with
Phineas Redux.
Similarly, I hit another brick wall with
Doctor Thorne.
I've never read
Daniel Deronda - perhaps I shall jump in my Eliot journey there .. rather than at
Middlemarch.