... mean that I will neglect politics on a wider scale, indeed that was my initial idea; I will place things in the wider political context in a separate section. I had originally intended to read 'Homage to Catalonia' by George Orwell alongside 'Middlemarch' on the grounds that I enjoy Orwell very much and that it was a book with a strong political stance to it, which I thought would go well with 'Middlemarch'. According to a literary guide 'Middlemarch' was one of the first political novels. However, I soon realised that 'Homage to Catalonia' might be a poor choice as it would be more of an account of the Spanish Civil War than a novel with a political element to it. Presumably Orwell would be writing from a very left-wing point of view and this would not necessarily complement a study of 'Middlemarch'. Indeed, the only points where the two ...

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