Middlemarch

The 1871 text. 87 parts, about 316,045 words, 24 hours of reading. Source edition.

Passages the guide marks

If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.
Chapter 20 · Read it in Chapter XX
We are all of us born in moral stupidity, taking the world as an udder to feed our supreme selves.
Chapter 21 · Read it in Chapter XXI
For the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and…
Finale · Read it in Finale
Her full nature, like that river of which Cyrus broke the strength, spent itself in channels which had no great name on the earth.
Finale · Read it in Finale

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