Pub Date: June 24, 2008
Dewey: FIC
Lexile Code: 1260
Features: Bibliography, Price on Product - Canadian, Price on Product, Table of Contents
Target Age Group: 18 to UP
Physical Info: 1.21" H x 7.74" L x 5.22" W ( 1.06 lbs) 608 pages
Series: Penguin Classics
Description: 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.
Review Quotes: "Adam Bede has taken its place among the actual experiences and endurances of my life." --Charles Dickens