George Eliot. In 2015, her landmark book, Middlemarch (1872), topped a BBC poll of the 100 greatest British novels and it’s been cited as one of the finest works ever written by such diverse ...

Ten novels exploring the good ... I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith; Middlemarch by George Eliot; Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin; The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx; The Tenant of ...

Charles Darwin adored novels. He read them on his now-famous ... also played out in the works of Victorian novelists like ...

Or about writers that embolden us to think of them as an “ancestor”? Why do we feel so moved by stories? Why do we seek ...