num_pages: 592
description: 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.
language: English
title: Adam Bede
titlecomplete: Adam Bede
characters: Dinah Morris, Hetty Sorrel, Adam Bede, Arthur Donnithorne
genres: Classics, British Literature, English Literature, Novels, Romance, Historical Fiction, Literature, 19th Century, Fiction, Victorian
ratings_count: 25032
places: Hayslope
publisher: Signet