Middlemarch - George Eliot Ike Cialona a servant infatuated with her

a servant infatuated with her employer or a young boy witnessing illicit adult passions

Two babies are left in a Tokyo station coin locker and survive against the odds

Op aandringen van een geduchte avonturier

‘Ik heb dat niet nodig om te leven

De werelden en personages die Marías schept in zijn verhalen zijn even vermakelijk als verontrustend

Middlemarch - George Eliot Ike Cialona a servant infatuated with herGeorge Eliot's most ambitious novel is a masterly evocation of diverse lives and changing fortunes in a provincial community. Peopling its landscape are Dorothea Brooke, a young idealist whose search for intellectual fulfillment leads her into a disastrous marriage to the pedantic scholar Casaubon; the charming but tactless Dr Lydgate, whose marriage to the spendthrift beauty Rosamund and pioneering medical methods threaten to undermine his career;