Adam Bede

Name: Adam Bede
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Rating: 8.7 (29 reviews)
Author: George Eliot
ISBN: 9780140436648

George Eliot

出版社

Penguin Classics

出版时间

2008-06-24

ISBN

9780140436648

评分

★★★★★

标签

英文原版文学小说 GeorgeEliot

书籍介绍

Carpenter Adam Bede is in love with the beautiful Hetty Sorrel, but unknown to him, he has a rival, in the local squire's son Arthur Donnithorne. Hetty is soon attracted by Arthur's seductive charm and they begin to meet in secret. The relationship is to have tragic consequences that reach far beyond the couple themselves, touching not just Adam Bede, but many others, not least, pious Methodist Preacher Dinah Morris. A tale of seduction, betrayal, love and deception, the plot of Adam Bede has the quality of an English folk song. Within the setting of Hayslope, a small, rural community, Eliot brilliantly creates a sense of earthy reality, making the landscape itself as vital a presence in the novel as that of her characters themselves.

AI导读

核心看点

乔治·艾略特首部小说，展现乡村全景。
细腻心理描写与道德哲思并重。
田园牧歌背景下的人性挣扎与成长。

适合谁读

喜爱英国维多利亚时期文学的读者。
对乡村生活与人物群像感兴趣的读者。
能接受缓慢叙事与道德议论的读者。

读前提醒

建议放慢节奏，细细品味细节描写。
部分情节转折略显突兀，需耐心阅读。
注意作者对人性不完美的深刻洞察。

读者共识

笔触稳重，心理描写极具感染力。
道德议论虽多但深刻，不可或缺。
前半部优于后半部，结尾略显仓促。

本导读基于书籍简介、目录、原文摘录、短评和书评生成，不等同于全文精读。

精彩摘录

"On a heap of those soft shavings a rough grey shepherd-dog had made himself a pleasant bed, and was lying with his nose between his fore-paws, occasionally wrinkling his brows to cast a glance at the tallest of the five workmen, who was carving a shield in the centre of a wooden mantelpiece. It was "
"Such a voice could only come from a broad chest...In his tall stalwartness Adam Bede was a Saxon, and justified his name; but the jet-black hair, made the more noticeable by its contrast with the light paper cap, and the keen glance of the dark eyes that shone from under strongly marked, prominent, "
"Adam was not a man to be gratuitously superstitious; but he had the blood of the peasant in him as well as of the artisan, and a peasant can no more help believing in a traditional superstition than a horse can help trembling when he sees a camel. Besides, he had that mental combination which is at "
"Adam, I confess, was very susceptible to the influence of rank, and quite ready to give an extra amount of respect to every one who had more advantages than himself..."
"(Being) simply a stout-limbed clever carpenter with a large fund of reverence in his nature inclined him to admit all established claims unless he saw very clear grounds for questioning them. ... The word ‘gentleman’ had a spell for Adam, and as he often said, he ‘couldn’t abide a fellow who thought"
"‘Look there, now! I can’t abide to see men throw away their tools i’ that way, the minute the clock begins to strike, as if they took no pleasure i’ their work, and was afraid o’ doing a stroke too much. ... I hate to see a man’s arms drop down as if he was shot, before the clock’s fairly struck, ju"
"‘There’s nothing but what’s bearable as long as a man can work,’ he said to himself: ‘the natur o’ things doesn’t change, though it seems as if one’s own life was nothing but change. The square o’ four is sixteen, and you must lengthen your lever in proportion to your weight, is as true when a man’s"
"For the first moment or two he made no answer, but looked at her with the concentrated, examining glance which a man gives to an object in which he has suddenly begun to be interested. Dinah, for the first time in her life, felt a painful self-consciousness; there was something in the dark penetrati"