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Adam Bede was the first novel by English author George Eliot, first published in 1859. It was published pseudonymously , even though Evans was a well-published and highly respected scholar of her time.
Adam Bede, novel written by George Eliot, published in three volumes in 1859. The title character, a carpenter, is in love with an unmarried woman who bears a child by another man. Although Bede tries to help her, he eventually loses her but finds happiness with someone else.
A short summary of George Eliot's Adam Bede. This free synopsis covers all the crucial plot points of Adam Bede.
'Adam Bede' chronicles the relationship struggles of the character Adam Bede who is in love with beautiful but selfish Hetty Sorrel who in turn loves Arthur Donnithorne. The love triangle results in a hideous crime with grave consequences and lessons for them all.
George Eliot, Joanna Trollope (Introduction), Hugh Osborne (Notes) 3.82. 25,495 ratings1,274 reviews. The story of a beautiful country girl's seduction by the local squire and its bitter, tragic sequel is an old and familiar one which George Eliot invests with peculiar and haunting power.
Adam Bede is known for embracing a realist aesthetic inspired by Dutch visual art. The revelations about Eliot's private life surprised and shocked many of her admiring readers, but this did not affect her popularity as a novelist.
Adam Bede is George Elliot’s first full-length novel, but when she wrote Adam Bede, she was already a journalist, translator, and critic.
Adam Bede, published in 1859 by English author George Eliot, is a story about love, betrayal, and redemption set in the rural English countryside at the close of the 18th century.
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Feb 4, 2008 · 'Adam Bede' by George Eliot is a historical novel with an interesting narrative style that is exceptional in its realistic depiction of the unexceptional.
