by George Eliot · Wordsworth Editions Ltd · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781853261923
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«Adam Bede» is George Eliot's first novel, published by Wordsworth Editions Ltd in paperback (528 pages, in English).
Adam, an honest and hardworking young carpenter, loves the vain Hetty Sorrel, who dreams of social advancement and allows herself to be courted by Captain Arthur Donnithorne. Meanwhile, Hetty's cousin Dinah Morris feels a quiet love for Adam. Set in the English countryside, the novel explores love, morality, and the consequences of seduction.
George Eliot's first novel, originally published in 1859. The Wordsworth Classics collection includes an introduction and notes.
For readers of Victorian classics and nineteenth-century English fiction, with an interest in rural settings and moral dilemmas.
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 wrote seven novels: Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), Romola (1862–1863), Felix Holt, the Radical (1866), Middlemarch (1871–1872) and Daniel Deronda (1876). Her novels are known for their realism, psychological insight, sense of place, and detailed depiction of the countryside. Middlemarch was described by the novelist Virginia Woolf as "one of the few English novels written for grown-up people" and by Martin Amis and Julian Barnes as the greatest novel in the English language.
