Middlemarch Audiobook

Quotes

• “One of the few English novels written for grown-up people.”

  — Virginia Woolf

• “[Wanda McCaddon] makes [Middlemarch] come alive. She is in wonderful form as she slides from character to character, giving them their distinctiveness through intonation and pacing. [McCaddon’s] voice is that of the genteel British woman, and it’s the perfect thing for Eliot.”

  — Library Journal

• “The novel is an image of a society, political, agricultural, aristocratic, plebeian, religious, scientific…It is a microcosm, local but also universal.”

  — A. S. Byatt, New York Times bestselling author

• “An author whose novels it has really been a liberal education to read.”

  — The Atlantic

• “One of the most profound, wise, and absorbing of English novels…Above all, truthful and forgiving about human behavior.”

  — Hermione Lee, British biographer, literary critic, and former professor of English at the University of Oxford

• “No Victorian novel approaches Middlemarch in its width of reference, its intellectual power, or the imperturbable spaciousness of its narrative….No writer has ever represented the ambiguities of moral choice so fully.”

  — V. S. Pritchett, acclaimed short-story writer and literary critic