Thomas Jones
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first heard Aug 2026
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And this character is called Raffles, who's a drunk who knows his secrets, and he turns up in Middlemarch to blackmail him.
And there's essentially a kind of murder plot that comes into it, which again, might be unexpected.
I hope that's enough.
A brief attempt at a summary, of course, doesn't begin to do justice to the many complexities and subtleties of this story.
It may be top of a list, but it is a magnificent novel.
And I guess it marks a revolution in English fiction as significant in its way as the political, scientific and industrial revolutions that it's set against.
It's a great intellectual novel in more than one sense.
And we're going to talk more about that.
Tom particularly is going to talk more about that shortly.
But I should also say that it's also...
an intellectual novel in the way that it represents the intellect of its characters in a way that I think is unprecedented in English fiction and of many of the characters, but in particular the representation of Dorothea's mind
And it lays the foundations for much that follows.
Without Middlemarch, no Portrait of a Lady, no Mrs. Dalloway, no Ulysses, I would even say.
So it's sort of a fundamental, pivotal novel in the history of the English novel, as well as being tremendously fun to read in its own right.
But to begin, after that prelude, we need to look back.
to the novels that preceded it rather than the ones that follow it.
And in particular to Don Quixote, who is an unlikely figure to be spotted riding through the West Midlands, but he does make more than one appearance, doesn't he, Tom?
And so why do you think that, you know, the name of the book, right?
So it began as two different books.
One of them was called Miss Brooke, which is the name of the first of the eight parts.
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