| Adam Bede (1859) by: George Eliot ( NOVEL ) ( SET IN THREE VOLUME ) complete Contributor(s): Eliot, George (Author) |
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ISBN: 1542874297 ISBN-13: 9781542874298 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $17.67 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2017 |
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| BISAC Categories: - Fiction |
| Physical Information: 0.71" H x 8" W x 10" (1.50 lbs) 342 pages |
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| Publisher Description: Adam Bede the first novel written by George Eliot (the pen name of Mary Ann Evans), was published in 1859. It was published pseudonymously, even though Evans was a well-published and highly respected scholar of her time. The novel has remained in print ever since and is used in university studies of 19th-century English literature.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 "rectangle" among 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. (The real village where Adam Bede was set is Ellastone citation needed]on the Staffordshire / Derbyshire border, a few miles from Uttoxeter and Ashbourne, and near to Alton Towers. Eliot's father lived in the village as a carpenter in a substantial house now known as Adam Bede's Cottage). |