![]() ![]() ![]() ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of This new edition is based on the definitive Clarendon edition and Eliot's corrected text of 1861. Faith, in the figure of Methodist preacher Dinah Morris, offers redemption to all who are willing to embrace it. ![]() Eliot's powerful portrayal of the interaction of ordinary people broughtĪ new social realism to the novel, in which humour and tragedy co-exist, and fellow-feeling is the mainstay of human relationships. First published in 1859, Adam BedeĬarried its readers back sixty years to the lush countryside of Eliot's native Warwickshire, and a time of impending change for England and the wider world. His dalliance with the dairymaid has unforeseen consequences that affect the lives of many in their small rural community. 'Our deeds carry their terrible nsequences that are hardly ever confined to ourselves.' 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. First published in 1859, Adam BedeĬarried its readers back sixty years to the lush countrysid. ![]()
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