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George Eliot's invaluable life lessons on confronting reality

George Eliot's invaluable life lessons on confronting reality

Update: 2025-10-23
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Virginia Woolf called George Eliot's novel, Middlemarch “one of the few English books written for grownups.” It’s a book full of characters asking: is it a good thing to live a life of duty, or is it ridiculous? Even after over 150 years since the book was published, it provides up-to-date lessons in how to live a modern life. *This is part one or two-part series. It originally aired on April 6, 2022.


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George Eliot's invaluable life lessons on confronting reality

George Eliot's invaluable life lessons on confronting reality