Middlemarch - George Eliot Niek Hendriks In Athene ziet ze in

In Athene ziet ze in een winkel een vrouw die precies de beeldjes koopt die zij wilde hebben

dat doorwerkt bij andere schrijvers– om te beginnen Orhan Pamuk

In the course of her daily life - Saturday chores

uncluttered by materialism and alive to the beauty of the world around him

Middlemarch - George Eliot Niek Hendriks In Athene ziet ze inGeorge Eliot's most ambitious novel is a masterly evocation of diverse lives and changing fortunes in a provincial community. Peopling its landscape are Dorothea Brooke, a young idealist whose search for intellectual fulfillment leads her into a disastrous marriage to the pedantic scholar Casaubon; the charming but tactless Dr Lydgate, whose marriage to the spendthrift beauty Rosamund and pioneering medical methods threaten to undermine his career;