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Five Great Reads: Siri Hustvedt looks into death’s abyss, Melissa Lucashenko on ‘white man’s fantasy’, and why we need the tooth fairy

Guardian Australia’s weekend wrap of essential reads from the past seven days, selected by Imogen Dewey

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George Eliot is best known for Middlemarch, but she also wrote an early work of science fiction

George Eliot – the pen name of Victorian novelist Mary Ann Evans – is celebrated today as a writer of realist novels: Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss (1860), Middlemarch (1871) and Daniel Deronda (1876).

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Bird Grove review – George Eliot’s true story embellished in a tender drama

Elizabeth Dulau is terrific in Alexi Kaye Campbell’s new play as the young woman set to become a daring pioneer in fiction and real life

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Bird Grove at Hampstead Theatre review: Elizabeth Dulau is the only saving grace here

2/5 The Andor actress shines in this ponderous play about a young George Eliot

Evening Standard

I wrote a BBC drama about hope in a ‘left-behind’ town – but Britain changed faster than I could script it

The aspiration to write a “state-of-the-nation” drama is the great white whale of political writing. Take the work of legendary German playwright Bertolt Brecht. Exiled by Hitler to Scandinavia in 1933, he attempted to capture life in his homeland from anecdotes and verbatim accounts. The result, his state-of-the-nation play Fear…

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A hidden life in the era of social media can still change history, as the story of Jesus shows

I see in Christmas an invitation to see differently: God in the social outcast, life on the margins reimagined as the centre of gravity

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Solo travellers are set to get their own cruise ship

MS George Eliot will take independent passengers on iconic river routes through Europe

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Transcendence for Beginners by Clare Carlisle review – a philosopher’s guide to enlightenment

Can we experience something bigger than ourselves in the midst of busy, humdrum lives?

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I Found And Compiled 27 Interesting Facts From Literature History

Authors are a special group of people, almost living in a world of their own, always on the hunt for inspiration. That being said, here are 28 highly interesting tidbits from the history of literature that I collected.

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How to change the world? Good grows out of unhistoric acts

Letters: Those looking for inspiration on how to be a better person should look to the novel Middlemarch, writes Andrea Dow, while Bruce Higgins reflects on his rewarding charity work

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Why you should revisit the classics, even if you were turned off them at school

Throughout my school years I had an exuberant, elderly piano teacher, Miss Hazel. She was one of five daughters (like me) and, like many young women of her generation, had never married her sweetheart because he did not return from the war.

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A sea anemone: I have pronounced their name incorrectly most of my life

It is probably wrong to touch, even gently, these creatures. But even now I find it difficult to resist

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Highgate Cemetery to charge £25,000 for burial spots close to grave of Karl Marx

The cemetery is the resting place of George Michael, George Eliot and Douglas Adams as well as Karl Marx

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Michael Cunningham: ‘Some people have never forgiven me for not just writing The Hours again’

The acclaimed author was halfway through writing a novel when the pandemic hit – forcing him to start over. He discusses the new book, and how he’s continuing to honour his literary heroes

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What is The Buccaneers based on and is it a true story?

What is The Buccaneers based on and is it a true story? The Apple TV+ period drama brings husband-finding frolics, but is there truth to it?

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Lauren Groff: ‘Virginia Woolf’s Flush is delightfully bananas’

The US author on the book she should never have read as a child; the thrill of Emily Dickinson, and falling in love with Vasily Grossman

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The Farmer’s Wife by Helen Rebanks review – farm to fork

Food and family life in a grounded companion piece to the writer’s husband’s The Shepherd’s Life

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George Eliot’s Middlemarch: egoism, moral stupidity, and the complex web of life

In our Guide to the Classics series, experts explain key works of literature.

The Guardian - UK

On Marriage by Devorah Baum review – endless love or life sentence?

The author and film-maker explores the landscape of matrimony in an erudite and entertaining quest for enlightenment

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Reader, I lived with him: why a happy ending doesn’t have to mean marriage

As more couples rip up the rulebook, attitudes towards romantic relationships are becoming less clear-cut – and art reflects that. Should we be celebrating a new kind of happily ever after?

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A Life of One’s Own by Joanna Biggs review – on the shoulders of giants

The lives of female authors provide inspiration for a woman who finds herself starting over after divorce

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Where to start with: George Eliot

Her uplifting and melancholy masterpieces include Middlemarch – but you can enjoy funny, wise stories that are less than 800 pages long too

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The Marriage Question: George Eliot’s Double Life review – one from the heart

Feminist philosopher Clare Carlisle illuminates George Elliot’s love life as well as the nightmarish marriages in her novels

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The Marriage Question by Clare Carlisle review – the lives and loves of George Eliot

A philosopher examines the meaning of relationships in the great novelist’s life and books

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