Adam Bede
George Eliot
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Description
George Eliot sets this novel in a Midland farming village, where carpenter Adam Bede loves Hetty Sorrel, a pretty dairymaid. Hetty, vain and restless, falls for squire Arthur Donnithorne, while preacher Dinah Morris offers Adam a steadier love. A trial, a prison visit, and a harvest close the long arc.
Eliot writes with rich, patient detail, from workshops to dairy to church. Her moral eye is stern yet kind, weighing pride, lust, and forgiveness. The novel stands as her first great portrait of English country life, where plain folk face grave choices and learn, slowly, to live with them.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | George Eliot |
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| COLLECTION | BOOKS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 1.1 MB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | Public Domain |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | Project Gutenberg |