Rosemary Ashton

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1) One hot summer: Dickens, Darwin, Disraeli, and the great stink of 1858

Author

Ashton, Rosemary

Language

English

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While 1858 in London may have been noteworthy for its broiling summer months and the related stench of the sewage-filled Thames River, the year is otherwise little remembered. And yet, historian Rosemary Ashton reveals in this compelling microhistory, 1858 was marked by significant, if unrecognized, turning points. For ordinary people, and for the rich, famous, and powerful, the months from May to August turned out to be a summer of consequence. Ashton...

2) Middlemarch

Author

Eliot, George

Series

Harcourt library of English and American classics

Language

English

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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; and, the religious hypocrite Bulstrode, hiding scandalous crimes from his past.