
Adam Bede
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Narrated by:
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Jill Tanner
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By:
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George Eliot
With an introduction and notes by Doreen Roberts, University of Kent at Canterbury
"Examine your words well, and you will find that even when you have no motive to be false, it is a very hard thing to say the exact truth, even about your immediate feelings...."
Adam Bede (1859), George Eliot's first full-length novel, marked the emergence of an artist to rank with Scott and Dickens. Set in the English Midlands of farmers and village craftsmen at the turn of the 18th century, the book relates a story of seduction issuing in "the inward suffering which is the worst form of Nemesis". But it is also a rich and pioneering record - drawing on intimate knowledge and affectionate memory - of a rural world that we have lost. The movement of the narration between social realism and reflection on its own processes, the exploration of motives, and the constant authorial presence all bespeak an art that strives to connect the fictional with the actual.
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Very good book
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Excellent
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The reflective passages and the religious references.
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wonderful book
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Her writing is sublime - characters, use of language, plot development, etc.
Middlemarch might be my favorite novel.
Adam Bede is well worth a listen. One can see all her skills showing and in formation. She has much growth to experience, but it is a fine effort, one that would make most novelists quite proud.
The reading is good, but not great.
A Very Good First Novel
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Long - but very listenable!
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George Eliot’s brilliance
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Difficult to understand the narration
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