![]() 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. A tale of seduction, betrayal, love and deception, the plot of Adam Bede has the quality of an English folk song. Association Member: MWABA Seller Rating: Contact seller First Edition Used - Softcover Condition: Fair US 5.00 Convert currency US 5.50 Shipping Within U.S.A. 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. Adam Bede Eliot, George Published by Thomas Nelson & Sons, New York, 1920 Seller: Round Table Books, LLC, Palatine, IL, U.S.A. ![]() Hetty is soon attracted by Arthur’s seductive charm and they begin to meet in secret. ![]() 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. In autumn 1861, in preparation for a cheaper one-volume edition of her first four novels, George Eliot reread and corrected both Adam Bede and The Mill on. ![]()
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