A review by kmhst25
Adam Bede by George Eliot

challenging emotional reflective sad slow-paced

3.5

As has happened before with Eliot's books, it took me a while to get into it, but once I was into it, I was hooked; it was smooth sailing for most of the middle pages. But I didn't really enjoy the ending, nor some of the minor characters--a woman-hater and a constant complainer are given entirely too much air-time.

Ranking the Eliot novels I've read so far, from best to worst:

1. Middlemarch
2. Daniel Deronda
3. Silas Marner
4. The Mill on the Floss
5. Adam Bede
6. Romola

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Misogyny

Minor: Child death and Chronic illness