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Subject(s)

• Triangles (Interpersonal relations)—Fiction [Browse]
• Illegitimate children—Fiction [Browse]
• Women clergy—Fiction [Browse]
• Infanticide—Fiction [Browse]
• Carpenters—Fiction [Browse]
• England—Fiction [Browse]

Contributor

• Martin, Carol A. [Browse]

Series

Oxford World's Classics [More in this series]

Summary note

Pretty Hetty Sorrel is loved by the village carpenter Adam Bede, but her head is turned by the attentions of the fickle young squire. His dalliance with the dairymaid affects the lives of many in their small rural community. This new edition of Eliot's pioneering classic of social realism uses the definitive Clarendon text. - ;'Our deeds carry their terrible consequences...consequences that are hardly ever confined to ourselves.' Pretty Hetty Sorrel is loved by the village carpenter Adam Bede, but her head is turned by the attentions of the fickle young squire, Arthur Donnithorne. His dallianc

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Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references.

Source of description

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on March 12, 2018).

Language note

English

Contents

• Contents; Introduction; Note on the Text; Select Bibliography; A Chronology of George Eliot; ADAM BEDE; BOOK FIRST; I: The Workshop; II: The Preaching; III: After the Preaching; IV: Home and its Sorrows; V: The Rector; VI: The Hall Farm; VII: The Dairy; VIII: A Vocation; IX: Hetty's World; X: Dinah Visits Lisbeth; XI: In the Cottage; XII: In the Wood; XIII: Evening in the Wood; XIV: The Return Home; XV: The Two Bed-Chambers; XVI: Links; BOOK SECOND; XVII: In Which the Story Pauses a Little; XVIII: Church; XIX: Adam on a Working Day; XX: Adam Visits the Hall Farm
• XXI: The Night-School and the SchoolmasterBOOK THIRD; XXII: Going to the Birthday Feast; XXIII: Dinner-Time; XXIV: The Health-Drinking; XXV: The Games; XXVI: The Dance; BOOK FOURTH; XXVII: A Crisis; XXVIII: A Dilemma; XXIX: The Next Morning; XXX: The Delivery of the Letter; XXXI: In Hetty's Bed-Chamber; XXXII: Mrs Poyser ""Has Her Say Out""; XXXIII: More Links; XXXIV: The Betrothal; XXXV: The Hidden Dread; BOOK FIFTH; XXXVI: The Journey in Hope; XXXVII: The Journey in Despair; XXXVIII: The Quest; XXXIX: The Tidings; XL: The Bitter Waters Spread; XLI: The Eve of the Trial
• XLII: The Morning of the TrialXLIII: The Verdict; XLIV: Arthur's Return; XLV: In the Prison; XLVI: The Hours of Suspense; XLVII: The Last Moment; XLVIII: Another Meeting in the Wood; BOOK SIXTH; XLIX: At the Hall Farm; L: In the Cottage; LI: Sunday Morning; LII: Adam and Dinah; LIII: The Harvest Supper; LIV: The Meeting on the Hill; LV: Marriage Bells; Epilogue; Appendix 1: George Eliot's History of Adam Bede; Appendix 2: The Crime, Trial, and Execution of Mary Voce: Three Contemporary Broadsheets; Explanatory Notes

Other title(s)

• Clarendon Edition of the Novels of George Eliot
• Oxford World's Classics

ISBN

• 0-19-186776-4
• 0-19-156846-5
• 1-280-76353-1
• 9786610763535

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