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Adam Bede

By George Eliot

2019-09-25 22:28:21

Adam Bede, the first novel written by George Eliot (the pen name of Mary Ann Evans), was published in 1859. The novel follows four characters' rural lives in the fictional community of Hayslope - a rural, pastoral, and close-knit community in 1799. ... Read more
Adam Bede, the first novel written by George Eliot (the pen name of Mary Ann Evans), was published in 1859. The novel 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 "rectangle" among the beautiful but self-absorbed Hetty Sorrel; Captain Arthur Donnithorne, the young squire who seduces her; Adam Bede, her unacknowledged suitor; and Dinah Morris, Hetty's cousin, a fervent, virtuous and beautiful Methodist lay preacher. Less

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File size495.615 KB
Print pages453
PublisherPublic Domain Books
Publication date2018-07-08
LanguageEnglish
ISBN978-0140431216
Mary Ann Evans, known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She was born in 1819 at a farmstead in Nu...

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