Reviews for Adam Bede: Webster's Spanish Thesaurus Edition

The average rating for Adam Bede: Webster's Spanish Thesaurus Edition based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2018-03-07 00:00:00 Michael Nelms Reader, I ask you, what can be better than a long book full of good sentences? That was a rhetorical question, of course'I think there is nothing better than good sentences following one on another, and this book is full of them. But Adam Bede also offers that extra ingredient readers generally can't resist: intrigue. The intrigue is centered on the curious nature of the rules of attraction, which is no surprise as variations on the classic love triangle often feature in George Eliot's books. However in Adam Bede, the rules of attraction seem to stretch well beyond the usual three-sided figure. Instead we have a far more complicated situation: SB loves DM who loves AB who loves HS who loves AD. *……*……*……*……* Five isolated points. There seems to be no way to bring them together, no way to build them into a useful shape, such as a house, for example. And yet Adam Bede, who is at the centre of the problematic, is a carpenter who is very good at calculating distances and angles and the correct weight of roof timbers. Come on, Adam, we say encouragingly, build that house! Make it happen. Meanwhile, our mental business is carried on much in the same way as the business of the State: a great deal of hard work is done by agents who are not acknowledged. In a piece of machinery, too, I believe there is often a small unnoticeable wheel which has a great deal to do with the motion of the large obvious ones...the human soul is a very complex thing. A little mental business, a little adjustment of wheels and cogs, and not forgetting some small heart-related 'agents' their owners hardly know exist, has to be carried out by several of the characters before Adam's house can be built. It is a very interesting process to watch. The human heart is a very complex thing indeed.

Review # 2 was written on 2020-06-23 00:00:00 Luis Fuentes That feeling when you close a very, very good novel after taking a lot of time to read it slowly, over shifting seasons, moods and circumstances. The feeling of having lived among the characters, suffered with them, fought against the inevitable developments, trying to force the words on the pages to change to avoid the fates that can't be avoided. That feeling of accomplishment when the epilogue gives deep satisfaction, a better love than the rushed first impression of the early pages. George Eliot knows her trade and loves it, and for the reader, there is little left to be said, except a deeply felt "Thank You, Madam, for this masterpiece!" Adam and Dinah and Seth and the Poysers and Arthur and Mr Irwine are all well tucked into their happy lives, so my last thoughts go to Hettie, who was punished according to the moral compass of a deeply flawed society for being a young and uneducated sexual being... Because of you, Hettie, I am reconciled with my own flawed times. You would have fared better with your first love if you had been a young girl now, and crime and pain and premature death would not have been your fate in my society. We have a long way to go still, but your fate shows me we have reached some justice too! To the Hetties of the world: you have a right to life and pleasure and support, and no society building its "virtue" on shaming and blaming and suppressing women's autonomy and sexuality can ever be called "the good old times".