Rebecca Mead
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London, The United Kingdom
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July 2009
Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life
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277 editions
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1872
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The Mill on the Floss
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2482 editions
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1860
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Sexual Politics
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65 editions
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1969
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My Life in Middlemarch
30 editions
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2014
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One Perfect Day: The Selling of the American Wedding
14 editions
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2007
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Secret Ingredients: The New Yorker Book of Food and Drink
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19 editions
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2007
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Home/Land: A Memoir of Departure and Return
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El cuento de la criada: Ensayos para una incursión en la República de Gilead
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The Scourge of "Relatability"
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2014
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“Reading is sometimes thought of as a form of escapism, and it’s a common turn of phrase to speak of getting lost in a book. But a book can also be where one finds oneself; and when a reader is grasped and held by a book, reading does not feel like an escape from life so much as it feels like an urgent, crucial dimension of life itself.”
― My Life in Middlemarch
― My Life in Middlemarch
“...there are pleasures to be had from books beyond being lightly entertained. There is the pleasure of being challenged; the pleasure of feeling one’s range and capacities expanding; the pleasure of entering into an unfamiliar world, and being led into empathy with a consciousness very different from one’s own; the pleasure of knowing what others have already thought it worth knowing, and entering a larger conversation. (The New Yorker, 13 Aug 2014)”
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“What's your favorite book?' is a question that is usually only asked by children and banking identity-verification services--and favorite isn't, anyway, the right word to describe the relationship a reader has with a particularly cherished book. Most serious readers can point to one book that has a place in their life like the one that 'Middlemarch' has in mine.”
― My Life in Middlemarch
― My Life in Middlemarch
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