![]() She is attracted to Arthur, the local squire's charming grandson and heir, and falls in love with him. The novel revolves around a love "rectangle" among the beautiful but self-absorbed Hetty Sorrel Captain Arthur Donnithorne, the young squire who seduces her Adam Bede, her unacknowledged suitor and Dinah Morris, Hetty's cousin, a fervent, virtuous and beautiful Methodist lay preacher.Īdam, a local carpenter much admired for his integrity and intelligence, is in love with Hetty. ![]() The novel follows the lives of four characters in the fictional community of Hayslope-a rural, pastoral, and close-knit community-in 1799. "the plot is founded on a story told to George Eliot by her aunt Elizabeth Evans, a Methodist preacher, and the original of Dinah Morris of the novel, of a confession of child-murder, made to her by a girl in prison." She described the novel as "a country story full of the breath of cows and scent of hay".Īccording to The Oxford Companion to English Literature (1967), The novel has remained in print ever since and is regularly used in university studies of 19th-century English literature. It was published pseudonymously, even though Evans was a well-published and highly respected scholar of her time. ![]() ![]() Adam Bede was the first novel by Mary Ann Evans ( George Eliot), and was published in 1859. ![]()
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