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Middlemarch instal the new for apple2/9/2024 Three years later I was finished with library school, working in a public library, and a used copy of Middlemarch fell into my hands at the library’s used book sale. I think I made it to about page 60, and then I put it down in favor of The Lord of the Rings. One of the first books I checked out was Middlemarch. It was the summer that convinced me to go back to school and get a library science degree. Two years later, I was unemployed during one of the hottest summers ever, and I spent it in the air-conditioned public library. Promise me you will read it, and I’ll give you an A. It was one of the greatest books by any woman author ever, she said. Constantine, told me I had done a great job, but she had slipped up in not requiring me to read Middlemarch, by George Eliot. At the end of the summer, the professor, Mrs. Dalloway I’m sure I could name a few others if I really thought hard. I remember reading The Awakening, Sense and Sensibility, Jane Eyre, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, and Mrs. For those unfamiliar with the concept, that meant I just read some books I wanted to read by women and wrote papers about them. I was taking one class for summer school - an Independent Study on Women’s Literature. It was the summer between my junior and senior year in college.
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