George Eliot was not her real name. Her name was Mary Ann Evans. She chose a man's name for her books. So people read them seriously.
Her greatest novel is "Middlemarch". It came out in 1871 and 1872. The heroine is Dorothea. She wants to do something great. She never does.
On the last page, she explains why this is not sad. She writes: "the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts."
Unhistoric acts are small good things. Nobody writes them down. But they make the world better.
Mateo feels ordinary. This week he brings in his neighbor's bins. He writes to a tired friend. He holds a door open. No history book will say his name. But the world is better.
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B2 · Upper intermediate… Her greatest novel, "Middlemarch", came out in parts in 1871 and 1872. It follows a young woman named Dorothea, who longs to do something great with her life and, for all her passion, never does. …
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