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more about #george more comments → Maulleigh: Thank you for the reading suggestion! more » Plum-Pie: US Jezzies - 135 copies on Amazon for 1 cent! Yay! [www.amazon.com] more » Plum-Pie: UK Jezzies - this is available on Amazon for 69p upwards - what are you waiting for? more » tell Dolly Parton again: She was my professor in college! I've read her memoir about Proust (yes, you heard that right) but never this one. Got to get on that... more » rosasparks: I was never a huge literary nerd about authors' lives and stuff until I read this book in HS. I've never turned back. I am a GIANT book nerd. I loved ... more » TheGintheCity: I have never heard of this before. English Major FAIL. And I even wrote a huge paper on George Eliot for British History class in college about 9 year... more » Khrushchev: SADIE. I am so into this. Can we please have a book club? A nerdy Jezebel book club? I've also had a long-standing book crush on this:[www.amazon.com] more » morninggloria: Lately I'm on a kick of really missing having carpeted floors. I look at the cover of that book and want to crawl right in there and lay all over on t... more » dianersb was bit by a zombie: Oh, I'll have to put this on the to-read list. I love this sort of stuff. Also good, Victoria's Daughters, about Queen Victoria's 5 daughters. more » -
#parallellives
A Good Read
Phyllis Rose's landmark Parallel Lives, a study of five Victorian marriages, is 25 this year. The portraits of the Carlyles, Mills, Ruskins, Dickenses, George Eliot and George Henry Lewes remain an essential, fascinating read. [Telegraph]

