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The seemingly peaceful country village of Hayslope is the setting for this ambitious first novel by one of the nineteenth century's great novelists. With sympathy, wit, and unflinching realism, Adam Bedetells a story that would have been familiar to Eliot's first readers: the... Read Full Overview

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 you, reader. With this drop of ink at the end of my pen, I will show you the roomy workshop of Mr. Jonathan... Read Full Overview

Originally published in 1859, "Adam Bede" is the first novel by George Eliot, which was the pen name of Mary Ann Evans. Eliot was one of the leading British writers of the Victorian era, as well as a noted journalist, poet, and translator. "Adam Bede" concerns a small, tight-knit,... Read Full Overview

Hailed for its sympathetic and accurate rendering of nineteenth-century English pastoral life, "Adam Bede" was George Eliot's first full-length novel and a bestseller from the moment of publication. Eliot herself called it "a country story--full of the breath of cows and scent... Read Full Overview

Adam Bede, by George Eliot, first published in 1859. It was published pseudonymously, even though Mary Ann Evans was a highly respected and well-published scholar of her time.Any profits generated from the sale of this book will go towards the Freeriver Community project, a project... Read Full Overview

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... Read Full Overview

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... Read Full Overview