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Publisher;Penguin

Author; George Eliot

Title; Adam Bede

Once you get used to the dialect;

"Which was ye thinkin' on, Seth," "the pretty parson's face or her sarmunt, when ye forgot the panels?", the slow pace and domestic details, Adam Bede has a curiously compulsive effect. The chapter titled, A Crisis, where our hero comes to grief had me quite concerned.

I don't find the omniscient viewpoint annoying but the story might have been even more effective in the 1st person.