"When death, the great Reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity." Adam Bede is one of the lesser-known classics by George Eliot.
This story takes place in 1799 in the rural English town of Hayslope. A young methodist preacher named Dinah has come into town and shaken things up a bit. Adam and his brother Seth Bede have just discovered their father dead in a river after a night of drinking. Seth has taken a pious fancy to Dinah, but she's determined to live the celibate life, while Adam has fallen for her cousin Hetty.
There is a full helping of quotable quotes so far. It'll take a week to read this one, so I'll try to grace the blog with something beyond my normal claptrap.
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