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Adam Bede
by George Eliot
George Eliot has managed to capture an entire era of life now completely gone. But it is because of her attention to detail of the mannerisms, nattering conversations and daily lives that this book is difficult to read. The dialogue in it consists of thickly written dialects, unrecognizable colloquialisms and odd rhythms. Once the reader has managed to get over Lisbeth's dialect then her insufferable whining and behavior comes to stronger light. The characters do become more memorable because they are harder won.
Eliot treats us to strange insight, it seems she is trying her best to convince the reader that it is indeed a man who is writing this novel. But there are some charming moments of subversion that show us Eliot's philosophy on life.
However, there seems to be a strange work upon the slowness and then instant rapidness of narrative, which throws off the book with a bumpy, flushed and quick end.
Eliot treats us to strange insight, it seems she is trying her best to convince the reader that it is indeed a man who is writing this novel. But there are some charming moments of subversion that show us Eliot's philosophy on life.
However, there seems to be a strange work upon the slowness and then instant rapidness of narrative, which throws off the book with a bumpy, flushed and quick end.