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Adam Bede ([New] ed.)

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Carpenter Adam Bede is in love with the beautiful Hetty Sorrel, but unknown to him, he has a rival, in the local squire's son Arthur Donnithorne.

Hetty is soon attracted by Arthur's seductive charm and they begin to meet in secret.

The relationship is to have tragic consequences that reach far beyond the couple themselves, touching not just Adam Bede, but many others, not least, pious Methodist Preacher Dinah Morris.

A tale of seduction, betrayal, love and deception, the plot of Adam Bede has the quality of an English folk song.

Within the setting of Hayslope, a small, rural community, Eliot brilliantly creates a sense of earthy reality, making the landscape itself as vital a presence in the novel as that of her characters themselves.

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Penguin
0141917857 / 9780141917856
eBook (EPUB)
823.8
24/04/2008
England
English
Classics
566 pages
Copy: 10%; print: 10%
Quiz No: 200689, Points 42.00, Book Level 9.40,
Upper Years - Key Stage 3 Learn More
Description based on print version record.