Why is English literature so fusty and gay
http://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2015/dec/08/best-british-novel-of-all-time-international-critics-top-100-middlemarch
Middlemarch is supposedly the best British novel.
However, the question stands:
What the fuck is Middlemarch?
>>7437659
Its on Gutenberg for free, find out.
Also, Remains of the Day should be more popular here, its basically feels guy as unreliable narrator.
I've read most of Middlemarch and yeah it's pretty great. Mostly because it did a lot of novel things first.
English literature looks kind of sad all by itself, doesn't it.
>>7437650
>2 books by Virginia Woolf in the top 3
fucking dropped
The diva of /lit/ has spoken.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/26/books/review/rebecca-meads-my-life-in-middlemarch.html?_r=0
>>7437698
Only if you don't take into account poetry, theatre and non-fiction.
>Virginia Woolf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QZN25zuxlk
>>7437725
Yeah, the novel is a New World thing desu. Leave that to the plebs.
>>7437725
You probably think painting is literature, too. Let's throw acting in there as well.
>>7437650
>trash like Zadie Smith on the list
>everything is full of women
>no Chesterton whatsoever
FUCKING DROPPED
U
CKING D
RIPPED
>>7437650
>best british novel
>best british
>best
>implying brits can write
>>7437727
Top kek.
>>7437727
kek
>>7437650
>Middlemarch
literally who
>>7438355
sincerely, I've never heard it being mentioned or discussed
>>7437682
Remains of the Day is probably my top british novel of the last 25 years
>>7437752
>Zadie Smith
>Bad
Sure, she's dropped off recently (NW was trash and shouldn't be on the list) but her debut was solid and showed great promise, shame really.
>>7437650
>fusty
Because Britain's heyday was over a century ago.
