Part 1 was posted December 30. Certain episodes in George Eliot’s Adam Bede (1859) and the manner in which the author treats them are especially striking. The novel has many compelling aspects ...

A cold draught flits through the Bede family's cottage late one night. There's a knock on the door, but no one's there. Trouble, never a stranger to the Bedes, has come calling again. Set in 1799 ...

He finds in “ Adam Bede ” the following passage : — “ Paint us an angel if you can, with a floating violet robe and a face paled by the celestial light; paint us yet oftener a Madonna ...

We all share the same fate.

Eliot (Marian Evans), author of “Middlemarch” and “Adam Bede,” among other classics, was then 60. She had never been married before she walked down the aisle of St. George’s Church in ...

(1) Before 2009 comes to an end, the publication of George Eliot’s novel Adam Bede early in 1859 also deserves to be noted. There are numerous biographies of Eliot, and Adam Bede is easy enough ...