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Adam Bede

George Eliot

1859466 pagesabout 7–11 hours
1859
first published
  • 2006ICON Group International, Inc. · 646 pages · ENGISBN 9780497913731
  • 2007Kessinger Publishing, LLC · 466 pages · ENGISBN 9780548025147
  • 2007Kessinger Publishing, LLC · 486 pages · ENGISBN 9780548014165
  • 2008Oxford University Press, USA · 624 pages · ENGISBN 9780199203475
  • 2007BiblioBazaar · 556 pages · ENGISBN 9781426421853
  • 2007BiblioBazaar · 610 pages · ENGISBN 9781426422539
  • 2007Book Jungle · 516 pages · ENGISBN 9781604245516
  • 1994Tuttle Pub · 528 pages · ENGISBN 9780460874618

Adam Bede is a hardy young carpenter who cares for his aging mother. His one weakness is the woman he loves blindly: the trifling town beauty, Hetty Sorrel, whose only delights are her baubles-and the delusion that the careless Captain Donnithorne may ask for her hand. Betrayed by their innocence, both Adam and Hetty allow their foolish hearts to trap them in a triangle of seduction, murder, and retribution.

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