Adam Bede

by George Eliot, Robert Lewis Weed, Najam Saqib

1859FictionEngland in fictionInfanticide in fictionWomen clergyInfanticide

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About this book

Adam Bede is a hardy young carpenter who cares for his aging mother. His one weakness is the woman he loves blindly: the trifling town beauty, Hetty Sorrel, whose only delights are her baubles-and the delusion that the careless Captain Donnithorne may ask for her hand. Betrayed by their innocence, both Adam and Hetty allow their foolish hearts to trap them in a triangle of seduction, murder, and retribution.

Themes & subjects

FictionEngland in fictionInfanticide in fictionWomen clergyInfanticideCarpenters in fiction

First published 1859

Setting

England19th century

About the author

George Eliot

22 November 1819 – 22 December 1880

George Eliot, was an English novelist and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She is the author of seven novels, including The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), Middlemarch (1871–72), and Daniel Deronda (1876), most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. ([Source][1].) [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Eliot