George Eliot

REVIEW:  Daniel Deronda by George Eliot

REVIEW: Daniel Deronda by George Eliot

I became a George Eliot fangirl after reading and loving Middlemarch a few years ago. I had previously only read Silas Marner by Eliot, in high school English, and while I had kind of liked parts of it, I recalled it as a bit of a slog (but then, a lot of 19th century fiction(…)

REVIEW: Middlemarch by George Eliot

REVIEW: Middlemarch by George Eliot

My recent success with 19th century English novels has emboldened me to continue to  tackle classics. I have also gotten into the habit of downloading public domain books onto my iPhone (the app I use is Stanza). I still love my Sony PRS-505 Reader, but the thing that’s great about reading on the iPhone is that(…)