Author : George Eliot
Release : 2006
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 623/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Sad Fortunes of the Reverend Amos Barton by : George Eliot
Download or read book Sad Fortunes of the Reverend Amos Barton written by George Eliot. This book was released on 2006. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.