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Adam Bede

Door George Eliot

Categorie
Engels
Boeknummer
#371261-ZD28
Titel
Adam Bede
Auteur
Eliot, George
Boektype
Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij
New York : Alfred A. Knopf
Jaar van uitgave
1992
ISBN10
0679409912
ISBN13
9780679409915
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Original gilt lettered burgundy cloth, ribbon marker, decorated endpapers, introduction by Leonee Ormond, 8vo. Everyman's Library.
Samenvatting
A remarkably vivid depiction of village life provides the backdrop to George Eliot's first novel, a story of love and betrayal invested with social realism of unprecedented sensitivity. Adam Bede is an upstanding young carpenter whose greatest weakness is his infatuation with the self-absorbed village beauty, Hetty Sorrel. Hetty has secretly set her sights on Captain Arthur Donnithorne, heir to the local squire's estate; his abandonment of her and her engagement to Adam set in motion a tragedy that will touch many people's lives. When Hetty lands in prison, accused of murder and facing a sentence of execution by hanging, it is her fervent young cousin Dinah Morris, a Methodist preacher, whose intervention offers both Hetty and Adam comfort and the hope of peace. The evocations of a lost ru... (Lees verder)ral world for which Adam Bede was so resoundingly praised on its publication in 1859 are charged in Eliot's hands with a personal compassion that intensifies the novel's outer dramas of seduction and betrayal and inner dramas of moral growth and redemption. With an introduction by Leonee Ormond
Pagina's
612
Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 12,50

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