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Ezra recommended Eliot's novel for its vivid depiction of a preindustrial English village and its relevance to Sabbath practices.
The first book I recommend is by George Eliot. So that's the Gnome Diploma of Marianne Evans and her most famous novel. You've probably heard of it as Middlemarch, but her first novel was called Adam...
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Episode: Sabbath and the Art of Rest
Ezra recommended Eliot's novel for its vivid depiction of a preindustrial English village and its relevance to Sabbath practices.
The first book I recommend is by George Eliot. So that's the Gnome Diploma of Marianne Evans and her most famous novel. You've probably heard of it as Middlemarch, but her first novel was called Adam B. It's from 1859 and it's an incredible novel with what we would now call a feminist plot, but it's also set in an English village in the turn of the 19th century, which is important because it's preindustrial.