[Shantanu]
This work's second book opens with the author comparing writing about truth to drawing a gryphon, and is a chapter called "In which the Story Pauses a Little." In this work, the humor of the brothers Chad and Ben Cranage does not appeal to the grim Anglican shoemaker Joshua Rann, who looks down on Will Maskery. After steward Satchell's paralyzing stroke, Casson argues the protagonist will not be promoted contra the beliefs of the man who teaches the protagonist mathematics by night, (*) Bartle. Two nieces are central to this novel: one of them is an austere Methodist who preaches at Snowfield and is repeatedly proposed to by the title character's brother Seth. The other shocks the town of Hayslope when a trial reveals that she abandoned her child by Arthur Donnisthorne. Ending with Dinah Morris married to the title carpenter, for 10 points, name this novel by George Eliot. [Shantanu]
This work's second book opens with the author comparing writing about truth to drawing a gryphon, and is a chapter called "In which the Story Pauses a Little."
{Adam Bede}