ANTH copy 39088009193558 has bookplate: Smithsonian Institution Libraries, In Memory of JEROME R. MINTZ Indiana University. NMAI copy 39088019919513 from the library of H. Paul and Jane R. Friesema.

I read George Eliot’s “Middlemarch,” sometimes hailed as the greatest British novel, in a rain forest in western Indonesia. I was there as a graduate student, spending my days slogging through mud and ...