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Adam Bede: a play dramatized from George Eliot's novel, Adam Bede Published on: 1901-01-01Dimensions: 8.00" h x .29" w x 5.00" l, Binding: Paperback112 pages 3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.It's hard to read but worth it. Spoiler alert! I tell you how it ends...By RuffslitchGeorge Eliot doesn't write the easiest prose to read. It took me a while to become engrossed in this book but I continued reading because I wanted to find out why the book was named after Adam and what happened to him. He appears early on as the main suitor for a ill-fated girl named Hetty; I found it difficult to like her as she persistently displayed shallow behavior. Another character named Dinah who appears early on doesn't figure as prominently as you would think with her early-and shocking-introduction as a Methodist preacher. The story revolves around these and other villagers and their relationships with one another and with the lord of the manor. This is the chief interest for me; the behind-the-scenes look at village life as read between the lines of old literature like this. Things such as cheese-making and kitting were as natural as breathing to these folk. Knitting, for example, was not something they sat down to do at the end of the day while chatting; apparently, everyone knits, even while standing around waiting for food to cook! And gossip ruled the day then, as now. Farmer's wives were not above passing judgement on each other for the quality of their butter and cheese or the deportment of their hired girls.But back to Adam. He is in love with Hetty who is uncommonly beautiful. Her feelings toward Adam are tepid at best but then the young lord of the manor makes the mistake of favoring her, it goes to her head and Adam's chances plummet. It's a mystery to me what Adam can see in Hetty since he is a fine, upstanding citizen who is well-regarded by everyone. There aren't many girls to choose from though, and other considerations entered into romance back then; she is the niece of his very good friends who are prosperous farmers. His other romantic possibility is the daughter of his employer at the wood yard thus he must choose between marrying into a thriving business, or not, and alienating his boss. But back then people knew they were stuck in the same town so they had more sophisticated methods of conflict resolution than we do today; they didn't have the luxury of never speaking to one another again so huge emotional flare-ups were avoided. Human nature was better understood, it seems.That doesn't stop Hetty from plunging headlong into disaster, however. Arthur is not only the young lord of the manor, but Adam's best friend, until Hetty becomes a point of contention between them. Arthur's honor fails him miserably under the spell of Hetty's beauty and results in their mutual ruin. Dinah, the ethereally-angelic preacher, is the final straw Hetty grasps at in her ruination. Under the cloak of Dinah's Christian love, Hetty manages to gain redemption before being transported instead of hanged for the crime of murdering her newborn baby.Adam eventually marries Dinah and everyone lives happily ever after. Well, not really just happily ever after, but everyone manages to make the best of life and muddle through with some grace and mercy. We would do well today to follow their example.1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.Long-winded but worthwhileBy Karl JanssenGeorge Eliot is best known for her novels of English country life, but this book set in Renaissance Florence just might be her magnum opus. Romola, Eliot’s fourth novel, was originally published in the pages of Cornhill Magazine from 1862 to 1863. The story opens in the year 1492. The title character, Romola de’ Bardi, is the daughter of a scholar who maintains a large library of classical texts. Romola assists her father, who is blind, with his studies, and in doing so has become an accomplished scholar in her own right. Tito Melema, a handsome young scholar from Greece, arrives in Florence after surviving a shipwreck. Romola’s father hires Tito to help him with his scholarly works, and soon a romance develops between the young man and woman. Tito is eager to establish himself as a figure of prominence in Florence, but events from his past come back to haunt him, threatening his newfound comfort. When Romola discovers too late that her husband is a man quite different from whom she thought he was, she struggles for independence from the confines of her marriage.All this takes place against the backdrop of Florentine history, which at times Eliot lays on a little too thick. Just when you begin to get involved in the lives of the main characters, the author inserts another interminable barbershop conversation or tavern debate on politics. The supporting cast boasts some real historic personages, including Niccolo Machiavelli and Girolamo Savonarola. The latter dominates the latter half of the book as Eliot elevates him to protagonist status. Savonarola was a Dominican friar who championed a Christian reform movement that defied Pope Alexander VI. The religious battle between the pontiff and the heretic escalates into a political war, with the fate of Florence hanging in the balance. To some degree, all this social and political context influences the lives of the fictional characters, but Eliot overdoes it to the point of pedantry. It soon begins to feel like merely pointless, ostentatious flaunting of her encyclopedic knowledge of Florence and its history. The reader never cares about Savonarola the way he cares about the fictional characters, so the overwhelming presence of this heroic preacher whom Eliot so obviously admires becomes an unwelcome distraction from the better parts of the book.When the narrative does follow Tito, Romola, or the ensemble supporting cast, however, the story is quite engaging. The Renaissance setting, archetypal characters, and classic themes of vengeance, loyalty, and integrity remind one of Victor Hugo’s great romantic works, in particular Notre-Dame de Paris (though Romola is not nearly as good). Yet in the authentically rendered psychology there’s an inkling of realism that foreshadows the naturalism of Emile Zola, as the characters are often slaves to their natures and driven by forces beyond their control.Reading Romola was a long haul, and I was not completely enamored with it, but in the end I’m glad I read it and will take away from it memorable characters and scenes. I prefer Romola over the other books by Eliot that I have read—Silas Marner and The Mill on the Floss—perhaps because I just prefer Renaissance Italy to the Victorian English countryside. Eliot obviously enjoyed the departure from her typical milieu as well, as evidenced by the prodigious amount of research that must have gone into this at times overly erudite epic. Romola’s long-windedness may make it a difficult book to love, but its ambitiousness and intelligence make it an easy book to admire.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.A Great Historical Novel - But One May Find It A Difficult ReadBy FCD117First a disclaimer... George Eliot is absolutely my favorite author and I have read all of her major works multiple times. I am currently in the process of a reread of Romola. For me personally, this is a "five star" book. But one may find it wordy and difficult. I love George Eliot and I am biased.At least one contempory critic of this particular novel called it "self indulgent". I understand what is meant. George Eliot had a fabulous intellect and a fabulous self education. I suppose she could not help but show these off once in awhile. Even if she did not mean too. The beginning of Romola is very heavy going. As another reviewer stated, it provides a great opportunity to study this part of the Renaissance; 15th century Florence. If one researches the narrative, one will find everything she is writing about is historically accurate. As an example of all of the above, I would point to a dispute between a character in the novel a historical figure Bartolomalo Scala and another actual Italian intellectual, Politian. George Eliot details in hilarious, and at the same time, almost painful detail a "squabble" involving poorly worded Latin epigrams... (Chapter 7). A modern reader may find this chapter hilarious or tortuous or both.As far as I am concerned, George Eliot does not really hit her stride in this book until over half way through. However I would never recommend skip any of the first part as it really lays the ground work for the second half of the novel. And I personally learned a ton by studying everything she talked about in the first half of the novel. I know the "studying part" is not for everyone. But it is part of my enjoyment.The book is interesting to me as it has both semi autobiographical aspects and gives us glimpses to future works. As an example of the semi autobiographical aspects, Romola is a young lady taking care of a father with a disability. George Eliot herself assiduously cared for her father during his declining years. Those were difficult times for George Eliot. In terms of glimpses of future work, compare and contrast Romola to Dorothea in Middlemarch. Similarly, Romola's father is a serious minded version of Casaubon in the same work. Thematically, George Eliot often revisits the idea of a female sacrificing herself for others and a greater good. The theme is referred to as "renunciation". Does Romola practice this Compare and contrast to Dorothea, Maggie Tulliver in "The Mill on The Floss", Janet in "Janet's Repentance", Gwendolyn Harleth in "Daniel Doronda", "The Spanish Gypsy" and others.Many modern readers find much of George Eliot's works to be dated and wordy. Of her novels this may be the most difficult read. Nonetheless, I personally love this work as I love all of her novels and best known short stories. Thank You...See all 199 customer reviews... 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