Sad Fortunes Of The Reverend Amos Barton

But, my dear madam, it is so very large a majority of your fellow-countrymen that are of this insignificant stamp. At least eighty out of a hundred of your adult male fellow-Britons returned in the last census are neither extraordinarily silly, nor extraordinarily wicked, nor extraordinarily wise; their eyes are neither deep and liquid with sentiment, nor sparkling with suppressed witticisms; they have probably had no hairbreadth escapes or thrilling adventures; their brains are certainly not pregnant with genius, and their passions have not manifested themselves at all after the fashion of a volcano.

One of the many astounding works where Eliot deals with Christian values in a provincial setting. She imparts psychological depth to the characters and lends a realistic touch to her works. As the characters fight and survive in the battle of life, the reader is rapt by the style and form of the narrative.