The book of revelations
Henry James complained that Middlemarch was too messy. But it was George Eliot's 'riot of subjectivity' that made the novel so bold. Zadie Smith salutes the Victorian novelist who gave future writers the freedom to push the form to its limits
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Zadie Smith
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guardian.co.uk, Saturday May 24 2008 00.14 BST
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The Guardian,
Saturday May 24 2008
'A feeling for all ordinary human life' ... George Eliot. Photograph: Hulton Archive/Getty Images
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