I reread it in my 30s with completely undiminished admiration. So another proof of greatness is that it renews itself for every generation.
Neither read English at university and both thought it was amazing. I first read it in my late teens and both my sons have read it recently.
It's a novel without weaknesses, except perhaps Will Ladislaw is a little too light and romantic – he's a bit underweight for a novel so ample and deep. I would say that it is the central English novel. Meanwhile, I don't think there is much argument about Middlemarch being the novel of the 19th century. Daniel Deronda, which came after, was an enormous worldwide success, but it is very hard going and is hardly read at all now. It is interesting that during her life Middlemarch wasn't George Eliot's greatest achievement.
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