Quote by Philip Pullman

“Middlemarch is a novel that is diminished by being put on the screen. It can't help but be, because so much of what we…

— Philip Pullman

“Jane Eyre. Villette. The Woman in White.” “Middlemarch,”

— Diane Setterfield

“[Middlemarch] is a treasure-house of details, but it is an indifferent whole.”

— Henry James

“No Victorian novel approaches Middlemarch in its width of reference, its intellectual power, or the imperturbable spaciousness of its narrative... I doubt if any…

— V.S. Pritchett

“middle. But I was beginning to learn that your life is a story told about you, not one that you tell.”

— John Green

“This was the authentic voice of the educated British middle class, unshakable in its tone, meeting the war with light-hearted fortitude and an insistently…

— Norman Moss

Rebecca Mead's My Life in Middlemarch is a wise, humane, and delightful study of what some regard as the best novel in English. Mead…

— Harold Bloom

“domestic competence utterly alien to her, a kind of miracle. He is saying, “I am in love with George Eliot! My god! Middlemarch! That…

— Gabriel Tallent

“Stepto was quite convinced (and convincing) that the frame story in which Janie speaks to Pheoby creates only the illusion that Janie has found…

— Zora Neale Hurston

“His voice was cloves and nightingales.”

— Janet Fitch

“The Middleman: "So what's it going to be? Keep the secret or death?" Wendy Watson: "What do you think?" The Middleman: "Ma'am specificity is…

— Javier Grillo-Marxuach

“is he crazy?" --Harcourt-Brace editor on Holden Caulfield”

— Salinger Jd