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If you've read Middlemarch and/or Daniel Deronda, this is a very different George Eliot. More akin to The Mill on the Floss, it tells a story of rural tragedy which might have influenced Hardy, particularly in Tess.
Taking in Eliot's concerns about class, gender and education, this is a moving book that both depicts a lost world and yet involves subjects which still concern us today: a girl's choice between the exciting and staid lover, and the consequences of unthinking sex.
Taking in Eliot's concerns about class, gender and education, this is a moving book that both depicts a lost world and yet involves subjects which still concern us today: a girl's choice between the exciting and staid lover, and the consequences of unthinking sex.
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This is George Eliot's first novel and the first of her works that I have read. It is the story of strapping young carpenter, Adam Bede, who falls in love with the beautiful, but fickle, Hetty. Hetty meanwhile is in the throes of a love affair with the young heir to the manor, Arthur. Knowing that farm girl Hetty is an unsuitable match for gentleman Arthur, Hetty agrees to marry Adam, much to Adam's delight. But Hetty does not love Adam and has some difficulties of her own to overcome and so runs away, getting into trouble that will ultimately destroy her.
This book is a bit of a chunkster and takes an age to get going. The characters and scenery are meticulously drawn and at least 50% of the book is taken up with this. But when the story really gets going it is a masterpiece, it is tense and fast-moving and has the reader on the edge of their seat waiting to find out Hetty's fate. But then the novel fizzles away again. Hetty disappears off the radar completely and Adam instead falls for his brother's love, the rather dull preacher-woman, Dinah, which is rather a disappointing end and one can't help but feel sorry for Adam's brother, Seth, who surely can't be ok with this outcome.
Whilst this novel had moments of brilliance, it was quite hard going at times and I wouldn't recommend it to someone unfamiliar with the classics. I found it interesting as Eliot's first novel and can see how she would have gone on to much greater things with her subsequent work and it has whetted my appetite to read Mill on the Floss or Middlemarch and experience her best works.
This book is a bit of a chunkster and takes an age to get going. The characters and scenery are meticulously drawn and at least 50% of the book is taken up with this. But when the story really gets going it is a masterpiece, it is tense and fast-moving and has the reader on the edge of their seat waiting to find out Hetty's fate. But then the novel fizzles away again. Hetty disappears off the radar completely and Adam instead falls for his brother's love, the rather dull preacher-woman, Dinah, which is rather a disappointing end and one can't help but feel sorry for Adam's brother, Seth, who surely can't be ok with this outcome.
Whilst this novel had moments of brilliance, it was quite hard going at times and I wouldn't recommend it to someone unfamiliar with the classics. I found it interesting as Eliot's first novel and can see how she would have gone on to much greater things with her subsequent work and it has whetted my appetite to read Mill on the Floss or Middlemarch and experience her best works.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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I always imagined this would be hard going, but eventually tried a copy I found in paperback. What a story! So much easier to read than Middlemarch, which I intend to try again now. I loved the description of the early Methodists and women preachers, too. Glad to have a chance to download a kindle version free.
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