Fiction

I'm working through classics never assigned to me in high school or college. This is the first George Eliot I've ever read. I remember kids in another English class in high school having to read Silas Marner and groaning their way through it (don't know how my class avoided it) but that's next on my list.

I stole several sets of classics from my husband's eating club in college because it was closing, and I didn't know what would become of the library there. The set of Dickens I stole (it's been 50 years, so I think I'm safe confessing this) had never been read--I had to cut pages. I read through the Dickens 40 years ago; just now getting to the Eliot. I've read most of the Conrad but any I missed will come after the Eliot.

And I'm not sorry I stole those books, either.