Title: Adam Bede /
Authors: Eliot, George, 1819-1880
Publisher: Collins,
Year: 1973
Subjects: Triangles (Interpersonal relations) Fiction.; Illegitimate children Fiction.; Women clergy Fiction; Infanticide Fiction.; Carpenters Fiction; England Fiction.
Abstract: Set in the countryside of the English Midlands at the start of the 19th century this is the story of seduction, crime, remorse and suffering. Beautiful Hetty Sorrel is led by her vanity to succumb to the temptations of the local squire. Those involved in her ensuing tragedy are sensitive, honest Adam Bede, implicated by his fruitless struggles to redeem her, and Dinah, her devout cousin, who comforts her when all appears to be lost.