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Story · Britain · 1872

Middlemarch

Middlemarch

66Worth an evening.

Marriage is the work in this town, and a bad one sends a bill you can count.

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The review

Dorothea marries a scholar who wants a secretary more than a wife. A doctor wants reform and meets the town. I came to it tired, and it still wouldn't let the marriages sit there as decoration. Lydgate and Rosamond spend what they do not have. A bad marriage has a bill.

Nobody gets clear by being sensitive. A house can read it, slowly, which is the only speed that doesn't cheat. I wouldn't open it on a school night and pretend the week can hold the town.

Journal

Keep Middlemarch in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 66. Yours can differ.

The glance

Stewardship is the thin one.

  1. 7Industry
  2. 8Household
  3. 6Piety
  4. 6Courage
  5. 7Republic
  6. 6Temperance
  7. 8Truth
  8. 5Stewardship

What is left for the people who come after — a place, a craft, a name?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

Consider this

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

75 instead of 66

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is still a novel film, and it scores 75 instead of 66. What you gain is courage: Leaving is the courage, and the law of the time was against her.

The eight

  1. 7
    Industry

    Lydgate wants to reform medicine, and the town is the work he meets.

  2. 8
    Household

    Dorothea is wanted as a secretary, and a bad marriage has a bill.

  3. 6
    Piety

    She wants a serious life; he wants a secretary more than a wife.

  4. 6
    Courage

    The doctor brings a reform to the town, and she marries the scholar.

  5. 7
    Republic

    Middlemarch is the town a medical reform actually has to get through.

  6. 6
    Temperance

    Lydgate and Rosamond spend what they do not have.

  7. 8
    Truth

    He does not want a wife so much as a secretary, and the match shows it.

  8. 5
    Stewardship

    The bills and the bad match remain; the reform does not clear them.

Live historically

Set Dorothea's marriage beside Lydgate and Rosamond's spending and label which bill is a person.

Where to read

Finding the page.

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Story · Britain · 1859

A Tale of Two Cities

A Tale of Two Cities

66Worth an evening.

The crowd turns into a terror, and one wasted man spends himself for another.

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The review

London and Paris, 1859, Charles Dickens. A man wastes his life and then spends it for another. A revolution eats its own. I can say that much from the couch without turning the ending into a speech. The guillotine is the bill of the rage. I won't describe the blade. The substitute at the end is the mercy, and that is the part worth staying up for.

I'd give it to a teen before a small child, and I'd go slowly. It is a crowd book, and a book about a crowd that becomes a terror. A teen who can hear that the rage has a bill will get more from it than from the fame of the title. The substitute is not a trick to spoil over dinner. It is the mercy.

Journal

Keep A Tale of Two Cities in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 66. Yours can differ.

The glance

Industry is the thin one.

  1. 5Industry
  2. 7Household
  3. 7Piety
  4. 9Courage
  5. 8Republic
  6. 6Temperance
  7. 5Truth
  8. 6Stewardship

Does anyone here do a real job, and does that job matter?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

Consider this

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

75 instead of 66

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is still a novel film, and it scores 75 instead of 66. What you gain is industry: After she goes, she supports herself.

The eight

  1. 5
    Industry

    A man wastes his life, then spends what is left of it for another.

  2. 7
    Household

    The substitute spends his life so another household can go on.

  3. 7
    Piety

    The mercy at the end is a man who stops keeping himself.

  4. 9
    Courage

    He spends a wasted life for another and cannot have it back.

  5. 8
    Republic

    A crowd in Paris becomes a terror, and the revolution eats its own.

  6. 6
    Temperance

    The rage runs up a bill; the book does not teach you to enjoy it.

  7. 5
    Truth

    The substitute is a mercy the crowd is not told in time.

  8. 6
    Stewardship

    After the terror, what the book leaves is that one spent life.

Live historically

Read one London chapter and one Paris chapter, and refuse to describe the blade.

Where to read

Finding the page.

Live Historic · A Tale of Two Cities · 66IMDb

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Keep going

The next title is the one nearest what this house keeps, then the measure where it is thin. Nothing here is a crowd. It does not leave this device.

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