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Originally Posted by poohbear_nc
From this source:
"Daniel Deronda was first published from February through September of 1876, in monthly installments of approximately 110 pages each. Victorian readers enjoyed and absorbed the novel one portion at a time, discussing the story’s gradual unfolding with friends and family and anticipating the turns each new installment would take. Eliot’s original installments will naturally form the framework of these serial readings." |
This would seem to tie in with the eight books into which
Daniel Deronda is divided.
As we all seem to be at very different stages in our reading, is it worth aiming at discussing the book in chunks? Given that we are allowing about three months in total for reading and discussion before moving on to
East Lynne, what if we were to discuss the book as follows:
Books 1-3 starting on, say, Saturday 5 June,
Books 4-6 starting around Saturday 26 June, and
Books 7-8 and the novel as a whole starting around 17 July?
Would it help to have that sort of structure, or is it preferable to leave any deeper discussion until towards the end of the time we have allocated?
I must confess that I would find it helpful to have more structure to what we are doing, but others may well not agree.