Adam Bede Contributor(s): Eliot, George (Author) |
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ISBN: 1534812075 ISBN-13: 9781534812079 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions Language: Spanish Published: June 2016 * Out of Print * |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections |
Dewey: FIC |
Lexile Measure: 1260(Not Available) |
Physical Information: 0.91" H x 5.98" W x 9.02" L (1.32 lbs) 452 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: According to The Oxford Companion to English Literature (1967), "the plot is founded on a story told to George Eliot by her aunt Elizabeth Evans, a Methodist preacher, and the original of Dinah Morris of the novel, of a confession of child-murder, made to her by a girl in prison." 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 Ellastone citation needed]on 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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