This is a bit random, but do publishers like Penguin move a lot of classics each year? Middlemarch’s rank in the Amazon USA list would seem to indicate it sells around ten copies a day. Does that seem reasonable? I thought it seemed a bit low, but my opinion is truly random. There are >12 different paperback editions, so that would seem to argue for popularity…
I worked in a bookshop and was always very frustrated that we only ever kept one copy of The Tenant of Windfell Hall in stock at a time because it would only be on the shelf for a day or two before it was bought, and there was another week wait for it to come back in again.
Great book!!