by George Eliot · Penguin Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140431216
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«Adam Bede» is the novel by George Eliot, published by Penguin Classics in paperback (608 pages, in English).
Set in rural England, the novel follows Adam Bede, an honest carpenter, and Hetty Sorrel, a flirtatious young farm girl. The arrival of Captain Arthur Donnithorne disrupts the community of Hayslope and triggers a love triangle in which love, desire, morality, and class differences intersect.
Originally published in 1859, this 1980 reprint includes an introduction by Stephen Gill.
Intended for readers of classic fiction and nineteenth-century English literature.
Mary Ann Evans, known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She wrote seven novels: Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), Romola (1862–1863), Felix Holt, the Radical (1866), Middlemarch (1871–1872) and Daniel Deronda (1876). Her novels are known for their realism, psychological insight, sense of place, and detailed depiction of the countryside. Middlemarch was described by the novelist Virginia Woolf as "one of the few English novels written for grown-up people" and by Martin Amis and Julian Barnes as the greatest novel in the English language.
