Read Middlemarch

A dairymaid ruined by two men and hanged for it; Hardy's angriest book.

One June day in London, a party and a shell-shocked veteran; Woolf's stream of consciousness.

A Hebridean summer house before and after the war; the "Time Passes" section.

An Englishwoman accuses an Indian doctor after the Marabar Caves; Forster on the Raj.

Two sisters, a merchant family and a clerk in Edwardian England; "only connect".

Charles Ryder, Sebastian Flyte and a teddy bear at Oxford; Waugh's Catholic elegy.

A spectral dog on Dartmoor and the most famous Holmes novel of all.

Pilgrims to Becket's shrine tell stories to pass the road; the Miller's is the rude one.