Binding: Paperback
Description: Carpenter Adam Bede is in love with the beautiful Hetty Sorrel but unknown to him he has a rival in the local squire's son Arthur Donnithorne. Hetty is soon attracted by Arthur's seductive charm and they begin to meet in secret. The relationship is to have tragic consequences that reach far beyond the couple themselves touching not just Adam Bede but many others not least pious Methodist Preacher Dinah Morris. A tale of seduction betrayal love and deception the plot of Adam Bede has the quality of an English folk song. Within the setting of Hayslope a small rural community Eliot brilliantly creates a sense of earthy reality making the landscape itself as vital a presence in the novel as that of her characters themselves.
Title: Adam Bede
Author(s): Eliot George, Margaret Reynolds
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Barcode: 9780140436648
Pages: 704 Pages
Publication Date: 6/24/2008
Category: Classic Fiction