So, yesterday was the official kick-off of the Keep Portland Weird festival here in Paris, which meant that I had a reading/screening in the...
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Eliot probes deeply into the psychology of commonplace people caught in the act of uncommon heroics. Alexandre Dumas called this novel 'the masterpiece of the century.'
Synopsis:
Adam Bede (1859) was Eliot's first novel proper. Rich pastoral, simple dignity, violence and weakness are interwoven with a sure touch and a shrewd understanding of motive.
"Synopsis"
by Gardners,
Adam Bede (1859) was Eliot's first novel proper. Rich pastoral, simple dignity, violence and weakness are interwoven with a sure touch and a shrewd understanding of motive.
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