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In saying that about Middlemarch, he may also be alluding to Virginia Woolf's famous comment that the book was "one of the few English novels written for grown-up people."



Yes, this quote is included in the article


That quote actually isn't in the article; it's in a different article on the same site, which you may have followed a link to: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/mar/18/the-gu...


Oh, thanks for the correction. I subscribe to the Guardian and must have read both articles this morning without realizing they were different.




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