The end of the book, Adam Bede, ( Eliot, G. 1859 ) was disappointingly weak. Our hero was reeling from the discovery that the smouldering Hetty, his amour, was accused of murder, and banished when his mother suggested he chat up Dinah the evangelist. Lewis Carroll's cat, Dinah, might have made a better companion.

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Penguin, Eliot, G., Adam Bede