Everyman's Library Classics: Adam Bede: Introduction by Leonee Ormond (Hardcover)

from DieFledermaus

I really enjoyed this book. In general, I love George Eliot's writing, but sometimes with authors, their early stuff isn't great and just makes you wish you were reading later works. However, this one was really good. The plot is involving and very suspenseful towards the end, but that's not the ...

from ctpress

Wow...what a read. What a classic. George Eliot has drawn characters here that will stick with you long after you have read the last page. The proud, honest, hard-working but also hot-tempered and unforgiving Adam Bede - the beautiful but vain and inexperienced Hetty Sorrel - the landlords grands...

from Bduke

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 s...

from m.belljackson

Adam Bede is a classic that reads even better after many years. Unlike Wuthering Heights, which overflows with meanness and cruelty and not the remembered passion, George Eliot's first book still flows into a compelling story of love sorrowfully lost. Characters and locale, as well as dogs and fo...

from ChocolateMuse

There's no doubt that George Eliot consistently produces a similar kind of heroine in all her books (at least those I've read). Dorothea Brooke; Maggie Tulliver; Mirah Lapidoth; and now Dinah Morris - all of them are filled with an inner vision of some Greater Good, and they spend their lives sin...