Adam Bede
By: George Eliot ; with an introduction by Gerald Bullett.
Series: Collins classics
Publisher: Collins
Published: 1975
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 478
Subjects: Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Fiction; Illegitimate children -- Fiction; Women clergy -- Fiction; Infanticide -- Fiction; Carpenters -- Fiction; England -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: 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.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 477-[478]
Originally published in 1859.