| George Eliot's Adam Bede: "We hands folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves." Contributor(s): Eliot, George (Author) |
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ISBN: 1780009674 ISBN-13: 9781780009674 Publisher: Word to the Wise OUR PRICE: $14.48 Product Type: Paperback Published: October 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics |
| Physical Information: 0.64" H x 6" W x 9" (0.90 lbs) 304 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The fictitious landscape of Loamshire provides the setting for this country tragedy, with little peace about the intertwined lives of its inhabitants. Dinah Morris is an earnest Methodist preacher who rejects Seth Bede for a life devoted to God. Adam Bede, his brother, is also rejected, but by Hetty Sorrel, a gullible dairymaid who falls for dashing Arthur Donnithorne, the squire's heir. The passions roused in the community of Hayslope have disastrous consequences: a fight between two rivals, an illegitimate pregnancy and a woman driven to desperate deeds. In Adam Bede George Eliot gripped her readers with an imaginative and complex tale. As pretty much everyone knows George Eliot was a woman and a staggeringly talented writer. Whilst then she had to hide her gender today it brings an extra fascination that these classic books were written by a woman. |