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Adam Bede / George Eliot. - London : Penguin Books, 1994. - 507 stron ; 18 cm.

(Penguin Popular Classics)

Autor

Eliot George (1819-1880) Autor

Forma i typ

Książki Proza

Przynależność kulturowa

Literatura angielska

Temat

Kobieta Życie codzienne Wsie Uwodzenie Miłość Śmierć dziecka Czyn zabroniony Kara śmierci Anglia (Wielka Brytania)

Gatunek

Powieść Powieść historyczna Romans

Tytuł serii

Penguin Popular Classics

Instytucja

Penguin Books

Adam Bede is a story about love, self-deception, religious feeling, innocence, and experience. It would not be an unfit introduction to Eliot, though Middlemarch is by far her superior novel. I am awed by Eliot's psychological insight into human personality. Her characters are some of the most vivid in all of literary history, and her ability to penetrate to the very heart of human motivation is unrivaled. She presents her story with wit and subtle sarcasm. (Take, for instance, this tongue-in-cheek comment: "Of course, I know that, as a rule, sensible men fall in love with the most sensible women of their acquaintance, see through all the pretty deceits of coquettish beauty, never imagine themselves loved when they are not loved, cease loving on all proper occasions, and marry the woman most fitted for them in every respect. . . . But even to this rule an exception will occur now and then in the lapse of centuries, and my friend Adam was one.").

Eliot's command of English is deeply impressive, and this book is worth reading just for the beauty of the language. But the story is quite interesting as well, and you will come to care about and sympathize with the characters. It is not a fast paced book, and it will require an investment of time and intellect. But it is well worth reading.

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