Adam Bede |
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Author:
| Eliot, George |
ISBN: | 978-1-4912-5977-1 |
Publication Date: | Aug 2013 |
Publisher: | CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $10.50 |
Book Description:
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"The masterpiece of the century." -Alexandre Dumas
"Adam Bede has taken its place among the actual experiences and endurances of my life." -Charles Dickens
The English Midlands at the turn of the eighteenth century is the setting for George Eliot's moving novels of three unworldly people trapped by unwise love. Adam Bede is a hardy young carpenter who cares for his aging mother. His one weakness is the woman he loves blindly: the trifling town beauty, Hetty Sorrel,...
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"The masterpiece of the century." -Alexandre Dumas
"Adam Bede has taken its place among the actual experiences and endurances of my life." -Charles Dickens
The English Midlands at the turn of the eighteenth century is the setting for George Eliot's moving novels of three unworldly people trapped by unwise love. Adam Bede is a hardy young carpenter who cares for his aging mother. His one weakness is the woman he loves blindly: the trifling town beauty, Hetty Sorrel, whose only delights are her baubles-and the delusion that the careless Captain Donnithorne may ask for her hand. Betrayed by their innocence, both Adam and Hetty allow their foolish hearts to trap them in a triangle of seduction, murder, and retribution
Hailed for its sympathetic and accurate rendering of nineteenth-century English pastoral life, Adam Bede was George Eliot's first full-length novel and a bestseller from the moment of publication. Eliot herself called it "a country story - full of the breath of cows and scent of hay." Adam Bede is an earnest and virtuous carpenter who is betrayed by his love, Hetty Sorrel, a pretty but foolish dairymaid who is seduced by a careless villager. The bitter and tragic consequences of her actions shake the very foundations of their serene rural community.