Adam Bede
Eliot, George
1819-1880
creator
text
bibliography
Didactic fiction.
Love stories.
nyu
New York
Knopf
Distributed by Random House
c1992
1992
1st ed
monographic
eng
xxxiii, 612 p. ; 22 cm.
George Eliot.
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).
e-uk-en
Triangles (Interpersonal relations)
Fiction
Illegitimate children
Fiction
England
Fiction
Women clergy
Fiction
Infanticide
Fiction
Carpenters
Fiction
PR4656 .A1 1992
823.8
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