One of the aspects I enjoyed researching for Adam Bede was the real village that Eliot’s fictional one was based on. Whereas Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloeis a story that I read as fable, with the moral lessons neatly wrapped up in mystery and lore. I started this year with two unread George Eliot books on my TBR – now I have none! Adam Bede was a fascinating read although not completely satisfying – Adam was too good to be true – the moral lessons rather heavy-handed. In the days when the spinning-wheels hummed busily in the farmhouses – and even great ladies, clothed in silk and thread lace, had their toy spinning wheels of polished oak – there might be seen in districts far away among the lanes, or deep in the bosom of the hills, certain palid undersized men, who, by the side of the brawny country-folk, looked like remnants of a disinherited race.
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