![]() ![]() It is both a field of force, a trap like a spiderweb, and a pattern of invisible connecting links between humans meeting each other's eye." - A.S.Byatt, The Guardian It is a metaphor of a web, or a tissue like those Bichat worked on. (.) All are held together by one of the most complicated and brilliantly worked metaphors anywhere in fiction. "She not only used images drawn from the natural sciences, but saw the world of her novel as a microcosm in which all the parts related to the whole.(.) All these people, solid and vivid in their varying degrees, are members of a deeply human little world, the full reflection of whose antique image is the great merit of these volumes." - Henry James, Galaxy (.) Middlemarch is a treasure-house of details, but it is an indifferent whole. ![]()
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