Adam Bede Introduction by Leonee Ormond |
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| Author:
| Eliot, George |
| Introduction by:
| Ormond, Leonée |
| Series title: | Everyman's Library Classics Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-679-40991-5 |
| Publication Date: | Apr 1992 |
| Publisher: | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
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| Imprint: | Everyman's Library |
| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $26.00 |
Book Description:
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A remarkably vivid depiction of village life provides the backdrop to George Eliot's first novel, a story of nbsp;love and betrayal invested with social realism of unprecedented sensitivity.nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; 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...
More DescriptionA remarkably vivid depiction of village life provides the backdrop to George Eliot's first novel, a story of nbsp;love and betrayal invested with social realism of unprecedented sensitivity.nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;
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.
nbsp;With an introduction by Leonee Ormond