Adam Bede /
George Eliot.
- 1st ed
- New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, c1992.
- xxxiii, 612 p. ; 22 cm.
- Everyman's library ; 59 .
Adam Bede is an upstanding young carpenter whose greatest weakness is his infatuation with the self-absorbed village beauty, Hetty Sorrel. Hetty has secretly set her sights on Captain Arthur Donnithorne, heir to the local squire’s estate; his abandonment of her and her engagement to Adam set in motion a tragedy that will touch many people’s lives. When Hetty lands in prison, accused of murder and facing a sentence of execution by hanging, it is her fervent young cousin Dinah Morris,
Includes bibliographical references (p. xxii-xxiii).
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Triangles (Interpersonal relations)--Fiction. Illegitimate children--Fiction. England--Fiction. Women clergy--Fiction. Infanticide--Fiction. Carpenters--Fiction.