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Adam Bede (Everyman's Library Classics & Contemporary Classics)
George Eliot
A remarkably vivid depiction of village life provides the backdrop to George Eliot?s first novel, a story of love and betrayal invested with social realism of unprecedented sensitivity.
Adam Bede is an upstanding young carpenter whose greatest weakness is his infatuation with the self-absorbed village beauty, Hetty Sorrel. Hetty has secretly set her sights on Captain Arthur Donnithorne, heir to the local squire?s estate; his abandonment of her and her engagement to Adam set in motion a tragedy that will touch many people?s lives. When Hetty lands in prison, accused of murder and facing a sentence of execution by hanging, it is her fervent young cousin Dinah Morris, a Methodist preacher, whose intervention offers both Hetty and Adam comfort and the hope of peace.
The evocations of a lost rural world for which Adam Bede was so resoundingly praised on its publication in 1859 are charged in Eliot?s hands with a personal compassion that intensifies the novel?s outer dramas of seduction and betrayal and inner dramas of moral growth and redemption.
With an introduction by Leonee Ormond
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | April 28, 1992 |
| ISBN13 | 9780679409915 |
| Publishers | Everyman's Library |
| Pages | 612 |
| Dimensions | 133 × 38 × 208 mm · 671 g |
| Language | English |
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