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Subject(s)

• Young women—Great Britain—17th century—Fiction [Browse]
• Triangles (Interpersonal relations)—Great Britain—17th century—Fiction [Browse]
• Infanticide—Great Britain—17th century—Fiction [Browse]
• Farm life—Great Britain—17th century—Fiction [Browse]
• England—Social life and customs—17th century—Fiction [Browse]

Related name

• Martin, Carol A., 1941-2017 [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Romance fiction [Browse]

Series

• Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press) [More in this series]
• Oxford world's classics

Summary note

• "The story's plot follows four characters rural lives in the fictional community of Hayslope---a rural, pastoral and close-knit community in 1799. The novel revolves around a love triangle between beautiful but thoughtless Hetty Sorrel, Captain Arthur Donnithorne, the young squire who seduces her, Adam Bede, her unacknowledged lover, and Dinah Morris, Hetty's cousin, a fervent Methodist lay preacher."--Amazon.com.
• George Eliot's first full-length novel, Adam Bede paints a powerful portrait of rural life, seduction, faith, and redemption. First published in 1859, this innovative novel carried its readers back sixty years to a time of impending change for England and the wider world. Eliot's penetrating portrayal of the interaction of ordinary people brought a new social realism to the novel, in which humor and tragedy co-exist, and fellow-feeling is the mainstay of human relationships. This is the first edition based on Eliot's final revision of the novel in 1861, using the definitive Clarendon text. It includes Eliot's journal entry on the real-life origins of the story and broadsheet accounts of Mary Voce, whose execution provided the germ of the novel. Carol Martin's superb Introduction sheds light on the novel's historical context and some of the main issues it explores: the role of work, class, and relations between the sexes, and Eliot's belief that the artist's duty is "the faithful representing of commonplace things." The book includes comprehensive notes that identify literary and historical allusions. - Publisher.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (pages xxxiv-xxxviii).

Contents

• A Chronology of George Eliot
• Adam Bede
• App. 1. George Eliot 's History of Adam Bede
• App. 2. The Crime, Trial, and Execution of Mary Voce: Three Contemporary Broadsheets.

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ISBN

• 9780199203475 ((acid-free paper))
• 0199203474 ((acid-free paper))

LCCN

2007039693

OCLC

173299478

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