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21 de nov. de 2016 · Adam Bede (1859) was George Eliot’s first novel, preceded only by her short fiction collection, Scenes of Clerical Life. The novel was recognized as a masterpiece from the start. The Times review stated that “the author takes rank among the masters of the craft” and describes “him” as possessing “genius of the highest order.”
But this novel isn't just a simple love triangle. It's not even just a love rectangle, or dodecahedron. No: Adam Bede exists in three dimensions—it's a book about a love triangle, the dawn of a new century, the church, the class system, the role of women, and education. Oh, and drunks drowned in creeks, secret pregnancy, and murder.
Könemann, 1999 - Fiction - 624 pages. The Clarendon edition of Adam Bede (1859) is the first critical edition of the work that established George Eliot's reputation. Its extensive textual apparatus lists manuscript and first edition variants from the copy-text, which is the corrected eighth edition of 1861--her last revision ofthe book.
5 de abr. de 1997 · Adam Bede (1859), George Eliot's first full-length novel, marked the emergence of an artist to rank with Scott and Dickens. Set in the English Midlands of farmers and village craftsmen at the turn of the eighteenth century, the book relates a story of seduction issuing in 'the inward suffering which is the worst form of Nemesis'.
26 de jun. de 1980 · Editorial Reviews. Novel written by George Eliot, published in three volumes in 1859. The title character, a carpenter, is in love with a woman who bears a child by another man. Although Bede tries to help her, he eventually loses her but finds happiness with Dinah Morris, a Methodist preacher. Adam Bede was Eliot's first long novel.
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Adam Bede. A carpenter and the protagonist of the novel. Adam is strong, intelligent, and fairly well educated for a peasant. He is industrious and loyal. Throughout the story, Adam’s pride forms the central movement of the book. Adam believes that working hard is a way of doing God’s work and is at least as important as religion itself.
Love as a Transformative Force. Love has the power to transform characters in the novel. The characters who love are portrayed as gentle, kind, and accepting. Dinah, for example, is a preacher but is never preachy. She accepts Hetty as she is, even when Hetty is peevish and selfish toward her.
