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    Middlemarch

    Middlemarch

    George Eliot

    4.08 (12)

    Who that cares much to know the history of man, and how the mysterious mixture behaves under the varying experiments of Time, has not dwelt, at least briefly, on the life of Saint Theresa, has not smiled with some gentleness at the thought of the little girl waling forth one morning hand-in-hand with her still smaller brother, to go and seek martyrdom in the country of the Moors? (Prelude)Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress.

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    Daniel Deronda

    Daniel Deronda

    George Eliot

    4.0 (2)

    Was she beautiful or not beautiful? and what was the secret of form or expression which gave the dynamic quality to her glance?

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