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  • Published: 3 November 2016
  • ISBN: 9781473545281
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 624

Adam Bede





A tale of rural tragedy and redemption, George Eliot's first novel

Discover George Eliot’s first novel, a tale of rural tragedy and redemption.

It may seem like an old tale: the beautiful village girl, her faithful admirer, a country squire's seduction. But seen through the eyes of any of its players, the old tale becomes one of fresh heartbreak, innocent hopes, best intentions gone awry, and better selves lost and restored. George Eliot's first novel shows all her humane intelligence and intimate knowledge of the richness and complexity of ordinary life.

  • Published: 3 November 2016
  • ISBN: 9781473545281
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 624

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Praise for Adam Bede

A disconcerting mixture of High Victorian and snappily contemporary. The sentences tend to be massive, slow-moving but deadly accurate: the characters' motivations are dissected, the moral puzzles presented with great clarity

Independent

A first-rate novel

The Times

From Adam Bede to Daniel Deronda, she questioned her times. She plumbed ideas, politics, religion, race, and above all the vagaries of the heart

Guardian

The whole country life that the story is set in, is so real, and so droll and genuine, and yet so selected and polished by art, that I cannot praise it enough to you

Charles Dickens