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By: George Eliot, Mary Waldron (Editor)

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Paperback | 19 August 2005 | Edition Number 2

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642 Pages

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17.7 x 22.1 x 2.8

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The seemingly peaceful country village of Hayslope is the setting for this ambitious first novel by one of the nineteenth centuryâs great novelists. With sympathy, wit, and unflinching realism, Adam Bede tells a story that would have been familiar to Eliotâs first readers: the seduction of a pretty farm girl by the young squire of the district. Eliot uses this story, with its tragic implications, to explore the dangers of reliance on religious and social norms to govern destructive desires. As this edition demonstrates, Adam Bede addresses profound questions of morality, religion, and the role of women in society, while at the same time seeking to establish a new aesthetic for fiction.

This Broadview edition includes a critical introduction and a rich selection of appendices, including selections from Eliotâs letters and journals, contemporary reviews of the novel, and accounts of the murder trial of Mary Voce, the woman whose story formed part of the inspiration for the novel.

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The Broadview edition of Adam Bede is an excellent one for students, scholars, and the intelligent general reader. The introduction and appendices offer the apparatus to contextualize the novel, a bestseller in its day because it engaged with major religious and philosophical questions as well as involving the reader with a compelling love story. It appealed then, as it does today, to both head and heart." - Pam Hirsch, University of Cambridge

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