none..., any more than...

[nimsooze]

"But none of these fables is "grand" because it operates by a single logic, any more than Middlemarch does."

Please help me clarify this sentence!

[Anglika]

Could you check your source - the sentence does not look quite right.

[nimsooze]

I checked it . It is just that. The writer is a native english too( a literary critic).

[Anglika]

"But none of these fables is "grand" because it operates by a single logic, any more than Middlemarch does."

Please help me clarify this sentence!

Ok - I've now read it again (several times) and it has begun to make sense.

None of these fables is grand [in nature] because it operates by [within] a single logic any more than Middlemarch [is grand because it operates within a single logic]

I hope this makes sense!