At the Passover seder, a young child traditionally asks four questions about the mysterious goings-on: why do we eat bitter herbs dipped in salt water, why do we eat reclining, and so on.
Felix Holt, The Radical ranks alongside Romola as George Eliot’s least-read novel. I’m happy this time to report that Eliot’s fourth full-length novel abundantly deserves and repays reading.
I ended up listening to The Mill on the Floss twice through, and for that I blame the fact that I have been doing more running and less stair-climbing recently.
In his new book arguing the case for America’s coming decline as a world power, Fareed Zakaria makes much of the fact that many of the world’s most grandiose pieces of Americana are no longer located in the United States.
Silas Marner is George Eliot’s third full-length novel. Like its predecessors, it is set in the fields and villages of the English Midlands in the days before the Industrial Revolution.