Eliot George

“It was not in his nature to be superlative in anything; unless indeed, he was superlatively middling, the quintessential extract of mediocrity.”That is how George Eliot describes the protagonist in her novella, The Sad Fortunes of the Reverend Amos Barton. Eliot’s first published work of fiction is a tale of a curate of a small church in England in the mid-19th century. Reverend Barton is indeed a thoroughly undistinguished man who leads a rather conventional life. He muddles through life; … [Read more...] about The Dull Lives We Lead