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| Original Title: | Adam Bede |
| ISBN: | 0375759018 (ISBN13: 9780375759017) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Arthur Donnithorne, Dinah Morris, Hetty Sorrel, Adam Bede |
| Setting: | Hayslope,1799(United Kingdom) |
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Reader, I ask you, what can be better than a long book full of good sentences?That was a rhetorical question, of course - I think there is nothing better than good sentences following one on another, and this book is full of them.
But Adam Bede also offers that extra ingredient readers generally can't resist: intrigue.
The intrigue is centered on the curious nature of the rules of attraction, which is no surprise of course as variations on the classic love triangle often feature in George Eliot's books. However in Adam Bede, the rules of attraction seem to stretch well beyond the usual three-sided figure. Instead we have a far more complicated situation:
SB loves DM who loves AB who loves HS who loves AD.
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Five isolated points. There seems to be no way to bring them together, no way to build them into a useful shape, such as a house, for example. And yet Adam Bede, who is at the centre of the problematic, is a carpenter who is very good at calculating distances and angles and the correct weight of roof timbers. Come on, Adam, we say encouragingly, build that house! Make it happen.
Meanwhile, our mental business is carried on much in the same way as the business of the State: a great deal of hard work is done by agents who are not acknowledged. In a piece of machinery, too, I believe there is often a small unnoticeable wheel which has a great deal to do with the motion of the large obvious ones...the human soul is a very complex thing.
A little mental business, a little adjustment of wheels and cogs, and not forgetting some small heart-related 'agents' their owners hardly know exist, has to be carried out by several of the characters before Adam's house can be built. It is a very interesting process to watch.
The human heart is a very complex thing indeed.
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| Title | : | Adam Bede |
| Author | : | George Eliot |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Modern Library Classics Paperback Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 624 pages |
| Published | : | April 9th 2002 by Modern Library (first published 1859) |
| Categories | : | Classics. Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Literature |
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Adam Bede is a polished and delicately painted debut novel . George Eliot published Silas Marner and the Mill on the Floss in each of the next two years. How amazing! Adam Bede predates Hardy's Tess of D' Ubervilles by over 30 years and honestly, I found Eliot's novel more suspenseful and brutal. The setting, 1798, bucolic England peopled with dozens of individuals from every walk of life. At first this town is like the Garden of Eden with meaningful employment for everyone. Adam, of course, isA three star read for this reader. Set in the rural community of Hayslope the novel follows the fortunes of the Bede family and their acquaintances.Found it difficult to invest in the principal character Adam Bede, some of his actions and interactions seemed hypocritical, but perhaps I'm being too harsh in my assessment. He didn't always put into practice what he preached. It was the young, vain, self centred Hetty Sorrel who held my interest and sympathy. On the other hand Dinah Morris, well
Adam Bede is similar to Tess of the D'Uberville's in it's basic premise; an innocent and unspecting maiden falls prey to the desires of a wealthy aristocrat thwarting the love and good intentions of a proud and honorble hero. Of course Adam Bede was written 32 years prior to Tess. Adam Bede is one of my favorite's of the great classic novels.
Adam Bede is a nineteenth century English novel with the typical abundance of words. Every scene is written to its fullest content resulting in paragraphs that span pages. There are no exceptions: settings, dialogue, and feelings are each covered extensively. They make for a relaxing novel because incrementally not much happens during each reading session, and to be fair, I enjoy a relaxing novel every now and again.The novels uniqueness stems from its setting and characters. The story takes
I'm a lifelong George Eliot fan, so it's strange that I just never got to Adam Bede before now. I suppose I was afraid it would fall short of Eliot's masterpieces, Middlemarch and Daniel Deronda, or even Mill on the Floss and Silas Marner. Adam Bede is in fact an "early" book; one senses Eliot working toward her greatest powers. The pacing can be a bit slow at times; Eliot juggles fewer narrative threads than she does later in her career; and there is a slight sensationalism in the focus on the
I believe this may be the most beautiful book I have ever read. I felt both uplifted and emotionally drained when I finished. The tragedy and the great beauty of George Eliot's writing! I didn't read this edition, mine was much older, but the introduction of my edition quoted Charles Dickens as saying that reading Adam Bede was an epoch in his life, and Alexandre Dumas called it the masterpiece of the century. I'm happy to agree with them. Most people say that Middlemarch is George Eliot's
So. This is an old story and terribly familiar(view spoiler)[ Tess of the d'urbervilles is a variant of the same story (hide spoiler)], I'm not sure if it is wise to say anything about the plot, perhaps the plot is incidental, it certainly can't be separated from its setting.This was the first time I have read this novel, it was almost a year ago that I readThe Mill on the Floss and it was so long ago that I read Middlemarch that perhaps it is almost as though I had never read it. However in
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