Adam Bede is a nineteenth novel by George Eliot (pen name of Mary Ann Evans). While this was the first novel penned by Eliot, it was published posthumously. Adam Bede follows the lives of several characters living in the rural English countryside surrounding the village of Hayslope, in Northern England. The story, set in 1799, follows a love "rectangle" involving Adam Bede, Captain Arthur Donnithorne, Hetty Sorrel, and Dinah Morris. This pastoral novel incorporates a great deal of imagery and symbolism and explores themes of class differences, women's roles in society, romance, love, and betrayal.
Chapter I
The Workshop
With a single drop of ink for a mirror, the Egyptian
sorcerer undertakes to reveal to any chance comer
far-reaching visions of the past. This is what
I undertake to do for...
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George Eliot was the pen name used by the English novelist Mary Ann Evans (1819-1880), one of the most important writers of European fiction. Her masterpiece, Middlemarch, is not only a major social d...
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The most learned and respected novelist of the later Victorian period, George Eliot suffered a decline in reputation after her death and into the early twentieth century because the biography stitched...
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George Eliot is widely recognized as one of the most important writers of the nineteenth century; yet, more often than not, her two volumes of poetry are ignored in modern critical assessments. Like s...
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George Eliot wrote nearly all of her nonfiction prose during two widely separated periods in her life. As Marian Evans, in her mid thirties, she produced more than sixty critical essays that appeared ...
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Biography EssayThe most learned and respected novelist of the late Victorian period, George Eliot suffered a decline in reputation after her death and into the early twentieth century because the biog...
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Throughout Adam Bede the characters of Dinah Morris and Hetty Sorrell are compared and contrasted, albeit sometimes indirectly, both can, at times, represent the Madonna and the harlot. It is not alwa...
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