Adam Bede Contributor(s): Eliot, George (Author) |
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ISBN: 1517564751 ISBN-13: 9781517564759 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: September 2015 * Out of Print * |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Historical - General - Fiction | Psychological |
Dewey: FIC |
Lexile Measure: 1260(Not Available) |
Physical Information: 0.72" H x 8.5" W x 11.02" L (1.76 lbs) 344 pages |
Accelerated Reader Info |
Quiz #: 16702 Reading Level: 9.4 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 42.0 |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Adam Bede, the first novel written by George Eliot (the pen name of Mary Ann Evans), was published in 1859. It was published pseudonymously, even though Evans was a well-published and highly respected scholar of her time. The novel has remained in print ever since, and is used in university studies of 19th-century English literature. The story's plot follows four characters' rural lives in the fictional community of Hayslope-a rural, pastoral and close-knit community in 1799. The novel revolves around a love "rectangle" among beautiful but self-absorbed Hetty Sorrel; Captain Arthur Donnithorne, the young squire who seduces her; Adam Bede, her unacknowledged suitor; and Dinah Morris, Hetty's cousin, a fervent, virtuous and beautiful Methodist lay preacher. (The real village where Adam Bede was set is Ellastoneon the Staffordshire / Derbyshire border, a few miles from Uttoxeter and Ashbourne, and near to Alton Towers. Eliot's father lived in the village as a carpenter in a substantial house now known as Adam Bede's Cottage). |
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