A remarkably vivid depiction of village life provides the backdrop to George Eliot's first novel-a breathtaking story of love and betrayal invested with social realism of unprecedented sensitivity is presented here in a beautiful hardcover edition, with an introduction by Leonee Ormond.
Adam Bede is an upstanding young carpenter whose greatest weakness is his infatuation with the self-absorbed village beauty, Hetty Sorrel. Hetty has secretly set her sights on Captain Arthur Donnithorne, heir to the local squire's estate; his abandonment of her and her engagement to Adam set in motion a tragedy that will touch many people's lives. When Hetty lands in prison, accused of murder and facing a sentence of execution by hanging, it is her fervent young cousin Dinah Morris, a Methodist preacher, whose intervention offers both Hetty and Adam comfort and the hope of peace.
The evocations of a lost rural world for which Adam Bede was so resoundingly praised on its publication in 1859 are charged in Eliot's hands with a personal compassion that intensifies the novel's outer dramas of seduction and betrayal and inner dramas of moral growth and redemption.
Everyman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a jacket. Everyman's Library Classics include an introduction, a select bibliography, and a chronology of the author's life and times.
| ISBN: | 9780679409915 |
| Publication date: | 28th April 1992 |
| Author: | George Eliot |
| Publisher: | Everyman's Library an imprint of Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 612 pages |
| Series: | Everyman's Library |
| Genres: |
General Fiction Rural communities Narrative theme: Sense of place Historical Fiction |
A remarkably vivid depiction of village life provides the backdrop to George Eliot's first novel-a breathtaking story of love and betrayal invested with social realism of unprecedented sensitivity is presented here in a beautiful hardcover edition, with an introduction by Leonee Ormond.Adam Bede is an upstanding young carpenter whose greatest weakness is his infatuation with the self-absorbed village beauty, Hetty Sorrel. Hetty has secretly set her sights on Captain Arthur Donnithorne, heir to the local squire's estate; his abandonment of her and her engagement to Adam set in motion a tragedy that will touch many people's lives.
Adam Bede features in the following genres: General Fiction, Rural communities, Narrative theme: Sense of place, Historical Fiction
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Adam Bede was written by George Eliot and published by Everyman's Library an imprint of Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Adam Bede has 612 pages
Yes it is part of Everyman's Library series