michael6706 's review for:

Adam Bede by George Eliot
5.0

Admittedly, not as fine a work as Middlemarch, so perhaps 4.8 rather than a full 5*, for the first half of the book does drag (for me), but the second half more than makes up for it in the characters and the author's wisdom along the way.

A beautiful, slow read, well worth the time.