num_pages: 507
description: In Adam Bede (1859) George Eliot took the well-worn tale of a lovely dairy-maid seduced by a careless squire, and out if it created a wonderfully innovative and sympathetic portrait of the lives of ordinary Midlands working people--their labors and loves, their beliefs, their talk. Thisedition reprints the original broadsheet reports of the murder case that was a starting point for the book, and detailed notes illuminate Eliot's many literary and Biblical allusions.
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: Penguin Popular Classics