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14 Hrs. 30 Min.
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It was her second book, Adam Bede, which secured George Eliot’s reputation as an author; but in this, her first work, she had already demonstrated her remarkable gifts for writing and produced a form of fiction that ran counter to the debates regarding religion in her day. Eliot had parted ways with Christian faith over a decade before writing Scenes of Clerical Life in 1857, becoming one of many Victorian-era honest doubters. Yet her mature views, never simple ones, shine through in this work. Under the surface orthodoxy of the Scenes are signs of her search for a “religion of Humanity,” and her desire for conciliation with the best in Christianity.
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