Adam Bede (Penguin Classics) - Softcover

Eliot, George

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140436642 ISBN 13: 9780140436648

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 2008

Synopsis

Carpenter Adam Bede is in love with the beautiful Hetty Sorrel, but unknown to him, he has a rival, in the local squire’s son Arthur Donnithorne. Hetty is soon attracted by Arthur’s seductive charm and they begin to meet in secret. The relationship is to have tragic consequences that reach far beyond the couple themselves, touching not just Adam Bede, but many others, not least, pious Methodist Preacher Dinah Morris. A tale of seduction, betrayal, love and deception, the plot of Adam Bede has the quality of an English folk song. Within the setting of Hayslope, a small, rural community, Eliot brilliantly creates a sense of earthy reality, making the landscape itself as vital a presence in the novel as that of her characters themselves.

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Review:

"Adam Bede has taken its place among the actual experiences and endurances of my life." --Charles Dickens

About the Author:

Mary Ann Evans (George Eliot) (1819-80) was a philosopher, journalist and translator before she became a novelist, her first stories being published in 1856. She led an unconventional life, co-editing the liberal journal Westminster Review for three years and living with the married man and philosopher George Henry Lewes. Her novels are among the greatest of the nineteenth century

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0140436642
• ISBN 13: 9780140436648
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 704
• Editor: Reynolds Margaret