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Adam Bede /

Eliot, George, 1819-1880.

Adam Bede / George Eliot. - 1st ed - New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, c1992. - xxxiii, 612 p. ; 22 cm. - Everyman's library ; 59 .

Adam Bede is an upstanding young carpenter whose greatest weakness is his infatuation with the self-absorbed village beauty, Hetty Sorrel. Hetty has secretly set her sights on Captain Arthur Donnithorne, heir to the local squire’s estate; his abandonment of her and her engagement to Adam set in motion a tragedy that will touch many people’s lives. When Hetty lands in prison, accused of murder and facing a sentence of execution by hanging, it is her fervent young cousin Dinah Morris,

Includes bibliographical references (p. xxii-xxiii).

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Triangles (Interpersonal relations)--Fiction.
Illegitimate children--Fiction.
England--Fiction.
Women clergy--Fiction.
Infanticide--Fiction.
Carpenters--Fiction.


Didactic fiction.
Love stories.

PR4656 / .A1 1992

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