One dust-up on the list:Middlemarch, by George EliotRead about another marital row on Mullan's list.
Lydgate and Rosamond marry in mutual passion, but impecuniousness begins to render the husband "disagreeable" to his wife. Their first row is all the ghastlier for producing no raised voices, just the certainty in Rosamond's mind, when Lydgate talks of pawning her jewels, that if she had known this "she would never have married him".
Middlemarch also made Mullan's list of ten of the best funerals in literature.
Are you a little unsettled for not having read Middlemarch? So are John Banville and Nick Hornby.
--Marshal Zeringue
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