Adam Bede - George Eliot - Books - Createspace Independent Publishing Platf - 9781534812079 - June 21, 2016
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Adam Bede

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).

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released June 21, 2016
ISBN13 9781534812079
Publishers Createspace Independent Publishing Platf
Pages 452
Dimensions 152 × 229 × 23 mm   ·   598 g
Language Spanish  

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