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Advantages: strong tale, sympathetic characters Disadvantages: changes in society mean it s a touch less relevant now.
I remember once reading a comment written by GeorgeEliot, in which she said that she always hoped for books in which the less pretty, dark haired girl triumphed rather than the elfin blondes. The Mill on The Floss is the tale of the dark girl triumphant - for the man prefers her to her pretty blond cousin. It is also a tale of honour and courage in the face of social disapproval. Finally the fate of the heroine is not a happy one, but as a tragic heroine, maggie is certainly preferable to many of the 'dappy bints' occupying that niche..
The plot then - the first section of the book deals with the heroine's early life - her adoration for her older brother, her parent's pretentions and errors. Her father's foolishness leads the family into abject poverty. We see snippets of other family members and local people - not as much detail as ...
Advantages: Wide ranging and still relevant. Disadvantages: Hard reading if you are't used to the style.
Middlemarch is generally considered to be Eliot's best work, and it certainly is a maginificent piece. less sentimental than some of her wrting, and spanning an enormous social range, this tale follows the interweaving lives of the rich and poor in the small town of Middlemarch.
I have now read this book twice, as well as having read most of Eliot's works. This is, in my opinion, one of her finest pieces. It is massivly complex, extremly touching, and well considered. While many writers of the time concentrate on the build up to marriage, Eliot takes us into the homes of several couples to look at their trials. many Victorian writers protrayed either the lives of men or the lives of women, leaving the gendre not their own to stand mostly in the shadows. Eliot portrays both men and women, with great insight and sympathy.
There are ...
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Product details
EAN
9780192834959
Type
Fiction
Genre
Classics
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Title
Adam Bede
Author
George Eliot
ISBN
0192834959
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In Adam Bede (1859) George Eliot took the well-worn tale of a lovely dairy-maid seduced by a careless squire and out of it created a wonderfully innovative and sympathetic portrait of the lives of ordinary Midlands working people - their labours and loves their beliefs their talk. Hugely popular in its own time Adam Bede is one of the greatest examples of humane and liberal Victorian social concern a pioneering classic of radical social realism. It is also important for the way it meditates on the need for such fiction and the methods of writing it. As the Introduction declares: 'The distinction of Adam Bede is to tell a story and also to tell about telling a story. This is a novel about obscure lives and also about how to be a novel about obscure lives.' This edition reprints the original broadsheet reports of the murder case that was a starting point for the book and the notes illuminate Eliot's many literary and religious references.
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