Pretty Hetty Sorrel is loved by the village carpenter Adam Bede, but her head is turned by the attentions of the fickle young squire, Arthur Donnithorne. 'Our deeds carry their terrible nsequences that are hardly ever confined to ourselves.' New Introduction, Select Bibliography, and Explanatory Notes by Carol A. A completely new and reset text, using the definitive Clarendon edition based on the the corrected eighth edition of 1861.Comprehensive notes identify literary and historical allusions and evidence of Eliot's wide reading.The Introduction discusses the novel's historical context and some of the main issues it explores: the role of work, class, and relations between the sexes, and Eliot's belief that the artist's duty is 'the faithful representing of commonplace things'.Includes George Eliot's journal entry on the real-life origins of the story and the composition of the novel, and broadsheet accounts of the execution of Mary Voce, whose story provided the germ of the novel.This is the first edition based on Eliot's final revision of the novel in 1861, using the definitive Clarendon text. Eliot's first full-length novel, Adam Bede paints a powerful portrait of rural life, seduction, faith, and redemption.Oxford Research Encyclopedias: Global Public HealthĮdited by Carol A.The European Society of Cardiology Series.Oxford Commentaries on International Law.
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